Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
SIGHTS
Macquarie Street, Hyde Park & The Domain
GALLERY
HYDE PARK
(Elizabeth St; St James, Museum)
It sounds like a cliche, but Hyde Park really is the city's
lungs. It's a formal park with manicured gardens, ibises probing the undergrowth (and the
rubbish bins), homeless hombres sleeping on benches and a giant chess set attracting nods
and whispers from spectators. The tree-formed tunnel running down its spine looks particu-
larly pretty at night, illuminated by fairy lights.
PARK
The park's northern end is crowned by the richly symbolic art deco
Archibald Memori-
end, the shallow Pool of Remembrance fronts the Anzac Memorial.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Details of the original Sydney settlement are still hinted at through place names: Bridge St once spanned the Tank
Stream, Sydney's first water supply, which trickled into Sydney Cove (now Circular Quay); crops were planted at
Farm Cove to feed the early convicts and marines, the latter of which were housed at the top of Barrack St; Mar-
ket St was the site of the first produce markets, which later moved south to Haymarket.
MEMORIAL
ANZAC MEMORIAL
morial (1934) commemorates the soldiers of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps
(Anzacs) who served in WWI. The interior dome is studded with 120,000 stars - one for
