Roma Street Park is a 16-hectare park in the centre of Brisbane city centre, close to the city's transit station and the Roma Street railway station Roma Street railway station, from where the park is accessible by foot.
Roma Street is the world's largest sub-tropical garden in the centre of Brisbane. Here you can stroll through a variety of themed walkways and flowerbeds, relax in the recreational areas, wander along paths crossing tiered waterways and admire the work the work of 16 local artists.
Local Aboriginal people have used the area as a meeting place and ceremonial site for thousands of years. In 1825, Roma Street Park became part of the original settlement of Brisbane, and as early as 1875 a main railway station was built on Roma Street was the station for the main railway linking Brisbane with Ipswich and Toowoomba. The station soon became the main goods depot in the city, and from 1911 to 1934, along with the surrounding area, it was regularly remodelled to keep the goods flowing. In 1920, large-scale excavation works, which removed 554300 cubic metres of earth from the area, permanently altered this mountainous terrain, creating the present artificial embankment and boundary of the of the former Albert Park. During the Second World War, Roma Street Station was a key hub a key hub for transporting military equipment and moving troops to the north.
After the war, Roma Street station was converted into an underground station Underground station and a stop for long-distance trains. In 1991, due to the increasing Mechanisation of freight transport and handling, as well as the use of multi-tonne containers, the goods warehouse functions were relocated to the Acacia Ridge neighbourhood. In 2000, construction began on the site of the former station and the park was expanded to include Albert Park. In April 2001, the new park was inaugurated to the public.
Today, the park's open-air grounds include an outdoor Amphitheatre, formerly called the Albert Park Amphitheatre. On its stage, the Theatre Quinn regular productions by the Queensland Theatre and the Queensland Shakespeare Company, as well as touring theatres. Various orchestras also perform here, for example, in October 1983, the amphitheatre played Strauss Under the Stars, a concert of music by Johannes Strauss. Before the City Botanic Gardens of Brisbane's River Stage was built, this was the venue for the traditional Christmas carols.
The park is home to a range of Australian plants and flowers from around the world. Due to the fact that it contains plants with different flowering seasons, the park's grounds are awash in colourful splendour all year round.
