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Arch of Victory
Ballarat Burrumbeet Road, Ballarat, Victoria, AustraliaAbout
Arch of Victory is a ENTRANCE TO THE AVENUE OF HONOR Alfredton is located west of Lake Wendouree along Sturt Street. The suburb has some of Ballarat's best known landmarks including the Arch of Victory, a World War I memorial which once marked the entrance to Ballarat and the start of Ballarat's Avenue of Honour, the longest war memorial roadside plantation in Australia, which extends 18 km to the Western Freeway, The official entrance to the Ballarat Avenue of Honour, despite its name the Arch is actually a memorial arch rather than a triumphal arch (as the use of the word Victory would imply) - it does not record the victories and generals of World War One but implores us to remember the Ballarat and district men and women who served to keep the world safe and peaceful for us all. The Arch of Victory is a grand cement rendered masonry structure of a single central arch flanked by wide piers 20 metres in width and 18 metres in height.
