Borsari's Corner

Borsari's Corner is at the intersection of Lygon and Grattan Streets, in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.

The corner is named after Nino Borsari, a member of the Gold medal-winning Italian pursuit cycling team at the 1932 Olympics, who was competing in Australia when World War II broke out.

Unable to return home, he established a bicycle repair shop on the corner in 1941.

[2] In the late 1940s, a neon sign of Borsari was erected, and is currently of heritage significance.

[3][4] The corner has become so well known that in 1967 Italian president Giuseppe Saragat delivered a speech at the spot.