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SYDNEY AT A GLANCE

There are more than 100 places of interest make the most of your stay, the following
described in the Area by Area section of this 14 pages are a time-saving guide to the best
book. A broad range of sights is covered: from Sydney has to offer. Museums and galleries,
the Colonial simplicity of Hyde Park Barracks architecture and parks and reserves all have
(see pp116–17) to the ornate Victorian terraces sections of their own. There is also a guide to
of Paddington; from the tranquillity of the diverse cultures that have helped to shape
Centennial Park (see p129) to the bustle of the the city into what it is today. Below is a selection
cafés and shops of Oxford Street. To help you of attractions that no visitor should miss.

Sydney’s Top Ten Attractions

The Rocks
See pp64–79

Sydney Opera House
See pp76–9 Royal Botanic Garden
See pp106–7

Art Gallery of New South Wales
See pp110–13

Oxford Street and Darling Harbour
Sydney Tower Paddington and Chinatown Taronga Zoo
See p85 See pp118–29 See pp92–103 See pp136–7

Harbour ferries Sydney’s beaches
See pp234–5 See pp56–7
Sydney Harbour Bridge (see pp72–3) and city skyline, from Lavender Bay

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