Having grown rapidly to more than two million residents in recent years,
Brisbane is by far the largest city in Queensland, its fortunes booming.
It's a port waiting to be appreciated on an
MSC Grand Voyages cruise excursion. Home to a glut of good cafés, gourmet restaurants and music venues, the city is focused around the meandering loops of the
Brisbane River, with the triangular wedge of the business centre on the north bank surrounded by community-orientated suburbs.
Nestled into an elbow-shaped curve of the river, Brisbane's
Central Business District (CBD) has been heavily developed since the 1990s, with
glassy high-rises sprouting alongside the waters-edge restaurants and shops lining upmarket Eagle Street; the few surviving old buildings are hidden like jewels in among the newer constructions. When your MSC cruise takes you to Brisbane, you'll discover that the city's mainstream retail activity is centred around the bustling
Queen Street Mall and along
Adelaide Street, while Sunday mornings usher in the
Riverside Markets at Waterfront Place.
Queen Street is Brisbane's
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