Spring is coming and Sydney's most beautiful and comfortable season is about to begin. Whether you live in Sydney and have friends traveling to Sydney, visiting CBD must be on the To Do List list.
But Sydney is so big! There are so many seven-turn alleys, so many historic buildings, and so many Internet celebrity bars, restaurants, desserts.
How is Sydney supposed to be?
Don't worry, now you just have this article in your hand, all kinds of tour routes are under control!
With this one, you are Sydney's most playful princess!
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Sydney's Secret-Hidden Alley introduction
Sydney once introduced Sydney's 10 most beautiful alleyways, but in fact, Sydney is worth playing in more than these alleys, CBD, alone hidden countless alleys. Some only a dozen meters, others winding hundreds of meters, like capillaries in the city, drawing the soul of Sydney.
Line overview
The line is completely in the heart of CBD, and although it's not long, it's just two kilometers from start to finish, but there are 18 alleys in the middle, and it takes about two hours if you're willing to go through it in detail.
From the customs building, go back to Tank Stream. via Martin Place.
Line detail
1. On the back of the Customs House Lane: customs building is this very short alley. The alley was surrounded by ten times more than 150-year-old buildings. In addition to the prestigious customs building, Hinchcliffe Woolstore in the southwest corner of the alley was precious, built in the 1860s. As a result of the development of the ring wharf, the buildings of that era were basically knocked down, one of the few surviving ones.
2. When Loftus Lane:Customs House Ln turns to the end, it's Loftus Lane.. The main building in the alley used to be dedicated to customs managers, shipping companies and wool dealers. The alley changed the three-story building, Gallipoli Club, built in 1876, which, like Hinchcliffe Woolstore, was a precious relic of that time.
3. Macquarie Place: comes out of Loftus Ln, across from Loftus St, and that's Macquarie Place.. You may have passed here countless times without knowing that it was once Australia's first water station.
This small square was designed and built by Francis Greenway, the first architect of the colonial era. The middle obelisk is also historic, marking the zero point of road measurement during the colonial period.
4. Reiby Place: 's Reiby Place is no longer what it used to be, and old brick buildings have long been replaced by skyscrapers. But the name Reiby was retained.
Born in 1777, Mary Reiby was the first start-up in Australia. As the richest and most powerful woman of the time, almost all of Sydney's top hotels, business centers, shipping companies and farms were her property.
You must know her. She's in your wallet!
5. The alley, once home to Sydney's jazz camp, was the favorite gathering place for Sydney's jazz enthusiasts, Bulletin Place:. Even now, there are also a lot of very stylish bars, in the heritage of jazz spirit.
6. There is a red brick house in this small street of Underwood Street:, doesn't it look familiar. Many of Sydney's 1940s apartments were shaped like this, and the house, built in 1798, was the ancestor of Sydney's Red Brick House. James Underwood, a big businessman, built an office building for his shipping company.
Now, this street has become a creative paradise for avant-garde art lovers! Come here and meet a strange work of art.
7. Dalley Street: you may not imagine this lane between George St and Pitt St, the main streets of Sydney's CBD, which turned out to be a rabbit farm. It is conceivable that CBD, then Sydney, would have been a farm area.
8. Bridge Lane:, which started out as Sydney's earliest timber factory, became the warehouse of Sydney's largest tea dealer and, to this day, an upscale hotel.
This is a brief history of the city of Sydney!
No matter it was the timber factory a hundred years ago, or the tea merchant later, it was the most prosperous industry of that year! As a result, it was once the commercial center of Sydney. Go in through this arch, rich and expensive! Today, the largest warehouse here has become a famous Chinese restaurant, wine and food, deeply loved by the people of Sydney.
10. This alleyway of Abercrombie Lane: looks like nothing, but it's the oldest one in Sydney! It avoids the noise of CBD perfectly, hiding quietly behind the tall buildings of the city, day and night.
This was once the busiest bar street of the 1920s! It's been a hundred years since the night and night went to the music, and the wine was intertwined.
Only the most famous bar of the year is still here.
When you walk through this small door, you will be shocked by the time here, everything is the same as 100 years ago! Even DJ and the bartender looked like the 1920s!
People who know this place, must be senior drinkers! Just because of one of Sydney's most attractive cocktails, the store lasted 100 years.
11. Bond Street: used to be Sydney's small business center and cultural centre, and on both sides of this little street gave birth to Sydney's largest publisher, modern photography studio, magazine, and countless artists out of the city.
12. The alley of Curtin Place: was named after former Australian Prime Minister John Curtin. The original name is Robin Hood Place (Robin Hood, which also highlights the former prime minister's hero complex.
13. Palings Lane: is one of Sydney's most elegant alleys to CBD. Palings Lane is famous for bringing the piano to Sydney by an artist named Palings, and the city has had great music ever since.
Although the piano and ballet dancers are now gone, it has become a more romantic place! It became Sydney's little Paris!
The same red canopy, the same coffee flavor, the same authentic French cuisine.
14. Ash Street: and Palings Lane are closely connected to Ash Street, which has always been the home of the Australian Liberal Party.
15. Angel Place: Sydney's most famous alley Angel Place is really short! just turn Ash Street! It's hiding by the Pitt St. If you don't want to miss it, please remember to look up!
When you stand at the entrance of the alley, you will be shocked by the dense birdcage on top of your head! This is one of Sydney's most famous permanent urban arts:
Forgotten Songs's forgotten melody
There are hundreds of all kinds of birdcages hanging here, but all of them are empty. For the elves who once lived on this land had long since disappeared with their moving voices-the price of the rise of the city! Artists try to find 50 species of birds that once lived on the land from the mountain fields, recording 50 kinds of moving bird calls and playing them here.
If you miss these lost birds, look down at the ground, and their names are engraved here.
16. Penfold Place: when you stand at the entrance of Angel Place's alley, you will see the little Phil Tower in Sydney. At this point, you need to turn around, and we're going to go to another exit in Angel Place, looking for Penfold Place. across the street.
Located in Pitt
The Penfold building on St was built in 1830. W C here.
Penfold&Co was Sydney's earliest large company, and the alley was originally privately owned. Later, a lot of people went to and fro Pitt.
St and the commuters on another main street secretly took this place as a shortcut. Gradually, it became a secret base for Sydney office workers to smoke and chat.
17. Hosking Place: and Penfold Place are connected to Hosking Place.. The alley's protagonist, John Hosking, the first elected mayor of Sydney, went bankrupt during the Great Depression in 1840, but is still remembered by Sydney citizens.
18. Rowe Street: was once called small Europe because on both sides of the alley were European fashion boutiques, galleries. Sydney people like to come here, WIndow Shopping..
Although none of these stores now exist, some large windows are still preserved, and there is still a vagueness of what they looked like at the time.
19. Tank Stream Way: used to be the site of the Hamilton biscuit factory, once the coveted place for Sydney's children. Now only the old building and the alley are left.
Although this road is not long away, but stop and take photos, you can also hang around for more than half a day. After this journey, you can see the history of Sydney since the 1700s, and you can also taste Sydney's best French food, Chinese food. Vietnamese food and coffee shop.
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Sydney's past-Historical Heritage introduction
Sydney was the first city established by British colonists and the oldest city in Australia, so many historical buildings of different periods have been preserved in Sydney. But what one would most like to know is what the European colonists left in Sydney more than 100 years ago. Then you must follow this route!
Line overview
This line is 3. 4 kilometers across the field, basically circling the CBD inner ring. The tour will take two or three hours. Also from the customs building, the focus is the Rock District Museum.
The center contains 30 scenic spots in one go, do not take the wrong road, traversing Sydney history!
Route detail
The Customs House: Customs Building was built in 1844.
2. The Chief Secretary's Building: City Secretary's Building was built in 1873.
The site of First Government House: 's first goverment building, built in 1788, was destroyed in 1845 and is now the site of the Sydney Museum.
The Education Department Building: Ministry of Education building was built in 1912, and Sydney's Town Hall and QVB were also created by the same designer.
5 Lands Department Building: the Lands Department Building was built in 1876.
Macquarie Place: Macquarie Square Park was first built in 1810.
7 the Exchange Hotel: exchange hotel was built in 1882 and was later renovated to become Republic Hotel.
The Australia Stock Exchange: Australian Stock Exchange Building was built in 1851 by the then Royal Trading Corporation.
The Burns Philp: Bernsfeld building, which was built by tycoon Philip and 1899, was the most elegant building in Sydney at the time.
The 10 Metropolitan Hotel: Metropolitan Hotel was built in 1834.
11 Grosvenor Place: Glofner Square was built in 1910.
St Patrick's Church: St. Parrick Church was built in 1840.
13 Cumberland Place: Cumberland Square, built in 1807, is Sydney's earliest residential area.
Susannah Place: Susannah Square has now become a museum showing the lives of Sydney people in the 1840s.
15 The Australian Hotel: Australia Hotel was built in 1914.
Observatory Hill Park: Astronomical Mountain Park was built in 1858.
The building at the National Trust Centre: National Trust Center, which was built in 1815, was originally a military hospital and later became a trust center in Fort Street School, after several vicissitudes.
The steps that Agar Step: came down from Astronomical Mountain were built in 1880 and are 130 years old.
19 St Brigid's Church School: St. Brigitte Church School was founded in 1833. It is the earliest church school in Australia.
The 20 Lord Nelson Hotel: Earl Nielsen Hotel was built in 1836.
Garrison Church: Garrison Church, the first military church in Australia, was built in 1840.
The 22 Hero of Waterloo: Waterloo Hero Hotel, founded in 1843, has a strong naval culture.
Ferry Lane and the Paddock: Lane is a very quiet lane built in 1900 because of the beautiful scenery near the sea, it is now a good place for many painters to draw.
Walsh Bay Wharves: Walshenwan wharf was built in 1901.
25 Clyde Bank: the first mansion in Sydney was built in 1830.
The Harbour View Hotel: Harbour View Hotel was built in 1840.
27 Cast Iron Urinal: cast iron urinal: the public toilet of the past, built in the 1900s. This is the only ancient public toilet in Sydney!
28 Dawes Point: this is where the aborigines used to roast fish. Built in 1788.
The Mariners Church: Naval Church was built in 1850.
30 The Rocks Discovery Museum: Rock area Exploration Museum. Here is a little bit of Sydney's past.
When you see this line passing through buildings, you will be surprised!
"isn't this the building I pass by every day?"
These buildings, which have undergone a hundred or two centuries of vicissitudes, are hidden in Sydney's skyscrapers, but have not been noticed.
Most of them will not appear in the purpose of the tour group, but it is a real, interesting, lively Sydney past!
I believe that you will have a new understanding of Sydney when you finish these two lines with your heart!
Sydney is no longer just an opera house, but a rich city
Next, Xiaoxiao Shuai will also introduce you to other tour routes, which Sydney has a completely different side! It would be a wild, passionate, ambiguous, but creepy Sydney!
