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6  HOW T O USE THIS GUIDE

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

This guide helps you to get the most from sightseeing section, covering all the sights,
your visit to Sydney. It provides both expert with photographs, maps and drawings.
recommendations and detailed practical Further Afield looks at sights just outside
information. Introducing Sydney locates the the city centre while Beyond Sydney
city geographically, sets modern Sydney in explores other places close to Sydney.
its historical and cultural context and Carefully researched tips on hotels,
describes events through the entire year. restaurants, pubs and entertainment
Sydney at a Glance is an overview of the venues are found in Travellers’ Needs.
city’s main attractions, including a feature The Survival Guide contains useful practical
on the city shoreline and Sydney’s best advice on everything from banking and
beaches. Sydney Area by Area is the main local currency to public transport.

Finding your way around the sightseeing section
The centre of Sydney has been for easy refer ence. Every chapter Area Map. Detailed information
divided into six sightseeing opens with a list of the sights for each sight is presented in
areas. Each area has its own described. All sights are numerical order, making it easy
chapter and is colour-coded numbered and plotted on an to locate within the chapter.

Each area has
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THE ROCKS AND colour-coded
CIRCULAR QUAY thumb tabs. A suggested route
Circular Quay, once known as Semi-Circular annual Vivid Sydney festival (see pp32–3), takes in the most
Quay, is often referred to as the “birth place when many of the buildings are bathed in
of Australia”. It was here, in January 1788, colour for spectacular light shows. The Rocks interesting and
that the First Fleet landed its human freight area offers visitors a taste of Sydney’s past,
of convicts, soldiers and offi cials, and the but it is a far cry from the time, little more
new British col ony of New South Wales was than 100 years ago, when most inhab itants attractive streets
declared. Sydney Cove became a rallying lived in rat-infested slums and gangs ruled A locator map shows
point whenever a ship arrived bringing its streets. Now scrubbed and polished, The
much-needed supplies from “home”. The Rocks forms part of the colour ful promenade in the area.
Quay and The Rocks remain a focal point from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the where you are in
for New Year’s Eve revels, and during the spectacular Opera House.
Restaurants pp186–7 relation to other areas
1 Altitude 11 The East Chinese Restaurant 20 Opera Bar
2 ARIA 12 The Glenmore 21 Pei Modern in the city centre.
3 The Australian Heritage Hotel 13 Ground Control Café 22 Quay
4 Bennelong 14 Heritage Belgian Beer Café 23 Saké Restaurant & Bar
5 The Bridge Room 15 Lotus Dumpling Bar 24 Tapavino
6 Cabrito Coffee Traders 16 MCA Café 25 Ventuno
7 Café Nice 17 The Morrison Bar & 26 Vintage Café
8 Café Sydney Oyster Room 27 Young Alfred
9 El Camino Cantina 18 Nelson’s Brasserie
10 The Cut Bar & Grill 19 Neptune Palace Locator map
DAWES
POINT DAWES POINT PARK See also Street Finder, THE ROCKS AND CIRCULAR QU A Y  67
map 1
66  SY DNEY AREA B Y AREA
HICKSON ROAD
L O W E R F O R T S T R E E T B R A D F I E L D H I G H W AY HICKSON ROAD Street-by-Street: The Rocks 3 The Rocks
Discovery Museum
R O A D GEORGE STREET Named for the rugged cliffs that were once its dominant Key episodes in
T O WNS PLACE
H ICKSO N THE feature, this area has played a vital role in Sydney’s The Rocks’ history
W I N D M I L L
MILLERS S T are illustrated by this
POINT ROCKS T development. In 1788, the First Fleeters under Governor museum’s col lection
A R G Y L E P L A C E CUMBERLAND STREET Phillip’s command erected makeshift buildings here, with of maritime images THE ROCKS AND BOTANIC
CIRC U LAR QUAY EAST WALKWAY
A R G Y L E S T R E E GARDEN
and other artifacts. CIRCULAR QUAY AND THE
OBSERVATORY 12 •23 S T R E T E Sydney the convicts’ hard labour used to establish more permanent DOMAIN
PARK G E O R G E Cove structures in the form of rough-hewn streets. The Argyle
The clock on the Customs House building, decorated with sea monsters and tridents H I G H S T R E E T H I G H L A N E S T R E E T Cut, a road carved through solid rock using just hammer Locator Map
See Street Finder, map 1
M A C Q U A R I E S T R E E T
CIRCULAR QUAY and chisel, took 18 years to build, beginning in 1843. By 1900,
ST
Sights at a Glance K E N T S T R E E T TOLL POINT C A H I L L E X P R E S S W AY The Rocks was overrun with disease; the street now known q Hero of Waterloo
GLOUCESTER
as Suez Canal was once Sewer’s Canal. Today, the area is still
Circular
Historic Streets and Buildings u Customs House p National Trust Centre H I C K S O N R O A D Quay rich in colonial history Hero of Lying beneath this historic
i Macquarie Place
1 Campbell’s Storehouses Churches H A R R I N G T O N STREET and colour. Waterloo pub is a tunnel originally
2 George Street Museums and Galleries 9 Garrison Church C U M B E R L A N D S T R E E T G E O R G E S T R E ET P I T T S T R E E T REIBY PLACE PHILLIP STREET used for smuggling.
6 Cadman’s Cottage 3 The Rocks Discovery Museum a St Philip’s Church JENKINS STREET GLO UCESTER ST LOFTUS STREET YOUNG L OWER FOR T STREE T
8 Argyle Stores 4 Susannah Place Museum Theatres and Concert Halls DALLEY STREET
0 Sydney Observatory 5 Sailors’ Home w Wharf Theatres GROSVENOR ST B R I D G E S T R E E T
q Hero of Waterloo 7 Pylon Lookout r Sydney Opera House pp76–9 LANG PARK 0 metres 500 A R G Y L E S T R E E T B R A D F I E L D H I G H W A Y
e Sydney Harbour Bridge pp72–3 y Justice and Police Museum 0 yards 500 W AT S O N R O A D TRINITY AVENUE
t Writers’ Walk o Museum of Contemporary Art JAMISON STREET
For keys to symbols see back flap
U P P E R F O R T S T R E E T The Rocks Market is a hive
B R A D F I E L D H I G H W A Y S T R E E T offering an eclectic range
of activity every weekend,
of craft items and jewellery
C U M B E R L A N D S T R E E T W A L K H I C K S O N utilizing Australian icons
from gum leaves to koalas.
Introduction 0 . Sydney Observatory G L O U C E S T E R
1to the area The first European struc ture P L A Y F A I R S T R E E T G E O R G E S T R E E T
on this prominent site was
a windmill. The present
museum holds some of
the earliest astro nomical
For easy reference, the sights instruments brought H A R R I N G T O N S T R E E T A R G Y L E S T R E E T
to Australia.
are numbered and located 9 Garrison Church C I R C U L A R Q U A Y W E S T John Cadman, government coxswain,
6 . Cadman’s Cottage
resided in what was known as the
Columns in this church are
Coxswain’s Barracks with his family.
on an area map. This map decorated with the insignia G E O R G E S T R E E T His wife Elizabeth was also a significant
figure, believed to be the first woman
of British troops stationed
here until 1870. Australia’s
to vote in New South Wales, a right
also shows bus terminals, first prime minister was Argyle Cut she insisted on.
educated next door.
ferry boarding points, Suez Canal
RiverCat boarding points o . Museum of Walkway along Passenger Terminal 0 metres 100 100
Contemporary Art
The Overseas
The Classical façade belies the
is where some of the
0 yards
contemporary nature of the
world’s luxury cruise
and Sydney Trains stations. Australian and inter national Circular Quay West their stay in Sydney. Key Suggested route
art displayed in an ever-
liners berth during
foreshore
changing programme.
The sights are also shown
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Street-by-Street map This gives
Finder on pages 240–45. 2a bird’s eye view of the most
important parts of each sightseeing
area. The numbering of the sights
ties in with the area map and the
fuller descriptions on the pages
that follow.
The area shaded pink is shown in
greater detail on the Street-by-Street
map on the following pages.
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