The Bondi Pavilion is defined by its long, low-slung facade built in the Spanish Mission style, stretching out as the grand center of Bondi Beach. Construction on this beachside banqueting house and surf pavilion began in nineteen…
The Best of Sydney
This tour highlights the iconic sights that define Sydney's identity on the global stage, leading you from the beach to the city's historic harbor and bustling central districts.
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1. Bondi Pavilion
2. Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Mrs Macquarie’s Chair is a sandstone ledge cut into the shape of a bench on a peninsula reaching into Sydney Harbour. Convicts hand-carved the seat into the rock overhang in eighteen ten. It sits on a point once known to the Gadigal people…
3. Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney covers seventy-four acres of lush, cultivated land that slopes down toward the waters of Farm Cove. You can identify this space by the way its dense greenery and ancient trees meet the open harbor, offering…
4. Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is defined by its gleaming white, sail-shaped shells that rise prominently from Bennelong Point. This performing arts center, which sits at the edge of Sydney Harbour, was the winning entry in a nineteen fifty-seven…
5. Luna Park Sydney
Luna Park Sydney sits on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour at Milsons Point, instantly recognizable by its main entrance: a towering, face-shaped structure with rounded eyes, a broad curved mouth, and exposed teeth. Since opening in…
6. Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is a massive steel arch spanning the harbour, identifiable by the two towering, granite-faced pylons that anchor the structure at Dawes Point and Milsons Point. Completed in nineteen thirty-two, this through arch…
7. Sydney Tower Eye
The Sydney Tower Eye rises above the city center as a slim, gold-turreted column topped by a tall antenna spire. Reaching a total height of three hundred and nine meters, it has stood as the tallest structure in Sydney since it opened to…
8. Queen Victoria Building
The Queen Victoria Building fills an entire city block in central Sydney, marked by a massive copper-sheathed central dome and twenty smaller surrounding domes. Opened in eighteen ninety-eight, this Romanesque Revival structure was…
9. Darling Harbour
Darling Harbour is a precinct of wide, pedestrianized spaces and water-side attractions that sits where Sydney once operated its primary industrial port. Before European ships arrived, the Wangal and Gadigal clans knew this bay as…