Sydney City
Must do
Shopping in Sydney city
The Sydney City centre has some of Australia’s best shopping arcades and malls. To find your way there, just look for Sydney Tower. Pitt Street Mall is a shopping hot spot with Myer, Westfield Sydney and the Strand Arcade just some of the highlights. Nearby David Jones and Queen Victoria Building are beautiful shopping destinations.
About Sydney city
Sydney is one of the busiest commercial hubs in the Asia-Pacific region with a cosmopolitan population, many historic sites, museums and parks. Sydney’s city centre offers visitors a huge variety of attractions, including designer boutiques, fine restaurants, hip bars and lavish department stores.
The city fans out from the focal point of Circular Quay. This transport hub is within walking distance of the city’s star attractions – Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House, hailed as a 20th-century architectural masterpiece.
Sydney has two World Heritage cultural sites - Sydney Opera House and Hyde Park Barracks, an Australian convict site.
Events
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- May
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Friday 4 May to Friday 25 May Talks on The Rocks
The worldwide community of museums will celebrate International Museum Day (IMD) on May 18. The theme for 2012 is Museums in a ...
- Saturday 5 May to Tuesday 10 July Unguided tours - Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Art
- Wednesday 9 May to Wednesday 20 June Discovering Country – A Sense of Place
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- June
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Friday 1 June Vivid Sydney - Our Generative Ecology - By Design Symposium - Presented by Billy Blue Design College
Leading design educators and Industry business people join togther to share, exchange and challenge ideas relating to ” the required skills, ...
- Friday 1 June Vivid Sydney - Cory Doctorow - Keynote and Conversation - Presented by Creative Sydney
- Friday 1 June Vivid Sydney - Head On Photo Festival Showcase
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- July
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Tuesday 3 July to Sunday 8 July More Fun than a Wii
Sydney Opera House presents More Fun than a Wii by the List Operators for KidsRecommended for children five years and ...
- Wednesday 4 July to Saturday 4 August The Pearlfishers
- Thursday 12 July to Wednesday 24 October La boheme - Puccini
Local towns
- Chinatown and HaymarketChinatown and Haymarket in Sydney, accommodation Chinatown, things to do in Chinatown,
- Circular QuayThe city fans out from the focal point of Circular Quay.
- City CentreSydney accommodation, things to do in Sydney, getting around Sydney city, Sydney
- Darling HarbourDarling Harbour accommodation, things to do in Darling Harbour, Cockle Bay, what's
- Kings Cross and WoolloomoolooKings Cross accommodation, things to do in Kings Cross, restaurants in the
- Potts PointPotts Point accommodation, things to do in Potts Point, Potts Point attractions,
- PyrmontPyrmont things to do, Pyrmont Park, Sydney Fish Market, walks at Pyrmont,
- Sydney HarbourSydney Harbour, things to do in Sydney on the harbour, Sydney Harbour
- The Rocks and Walsh BayThe Rocks accommodation, things to do in The Rocks, restaurants in the
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