Sydney Classic

Before Bondi Beach was a global symbol of sun and surfing, it was Boondi — an Aboriginal word meaning water breaking over rocks — and it hel…

Taronga Zoo's story is one of transformation and remarkable logistics. It all began in 1884 at Moore Park Zoo in an area locals called Billy…

Picture Sydney in 1788, just days after the First Fleet landed at Port Jackson. Governor Arthur Phillip, looking at this peninsula jutting i…

You're standing on ground that tells the story of a complete transformation. For thousands of years before European arrival, the Eora people…

Imagine standing here in 1815. A colonial administrator named Francis Greenway suggested to Governor Macquarie that a bridge might be nice. …

Imagine standing here in January 1788. Eleven ships slip into Sydney Cove after an eight-month voyage from England, carrying 736 convicts ch…

Stand here and you're standing on the birthplace of European Sydney. In 1788, when the First Fleet arrived under Governor Phillip carrying a…

Imagine Sydney in 1810. The colony is barely twenty years old, rough and raw. Governor Lachlan Macquarie has just arrived with ambitious pla…

Picture Sydney in 1893. The city is bustling, growing, hungry for a grand public marketplace. A 28-year-old architect named George McRae sub…

Sydney Tower was born from an ambitious vision in the 1970s when developers realised the city needed a landmark to rival the Opera House and…

While Hyde Park is an urban park, it hosts more wildlife than you might expect. The mature trees — particularly the Moreton Bay figs — attra…

St Mary's Cathedral stands on sacred ground in more ways than one. This is the site of Australia's first Catholic chapel, established on 21 …

The building standing before you is a masterpiece of Victorian institutional design, built in the golden age of museums. The sandstone facad…

This site carries layers of Sydney history stacked like geological strata. It all began with the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the trad…

The Powerhouse Ultimo building itself is a photographer's gift. The 1902 brick industrial architecture photographs beautifully, particularly…

Barangaroo's story spans 7,000 years, but the transformation you see today begins much earlier in Sydney's colonial story. This headland was…

Luna Park Sydney was born from a grand idea that crossed the Pacific. The original Luna Park opened at Coney Island in New York in 1903, and…

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has a fascinatingly tangled origin story that reads like a novel complete with intrigue, personal feuds a…

Manly's story begins in January 1788 when Captain Arthur Phillip stepped ashore at Manly Cove and was struck by what he described as the 'co…

Coogee's story begins long before it became Sydney's playground. Indigenous peoples lived here for centuries, but the beach's transformation…

King Street's story is one of unlikely preservation. Following what many believe was an ancient Aboriginal track connecting Sydney Cove to B…

Paddington's story is one of transformation and resurrection. When European settlement began, the area was subdivided into thirteen large pa…

Chinatown's story begins not with a grand vision, but with timber. In the late 1800s, this area was a timber storage yard in Haymarket, unre…

Sydney's relationship with fresh seafood runs deep, but the fish market as we know it today is a surprisingly recent story. Before 1966, fis…

The Three Sisters stand as one of Australia's most recognisable geological formations, but their story begins long before Europeans ever set…

Watsons Bay sits at the mouth of Sydney Harbour on the South Head peninsula, a location shaped by geological processes operating over hundre…