Anglais: Sydney (ville)

SYDNEY

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia with an urban area comprising a 2012 population of 4,667,283 inhabitants1 spread over nearly 12,150 km2. It is the capital of the state of New South Wales and is located on the southeast coast of the country. Its inhabitants are called Sydneysiders or Sydneyites.

This is the British navigator James Cook who first saw the site of the current Sydney, which he named Port Jackson in 1770

Sydney hosted the Summer Olympics in 2000. The city also do Global Youth Day 2008.

Celebrations of the New Year and National Day in Sydney are the most important in Australia

Géographie

The City of Sydney is located in a box by the Pacific Ocean to the coastal basin, the Blue Mountains to the west, the Hawkesbury River to the north

Port Jackson, around which the city is built, is the largest natural harbor in the world

Sydney covers two main regions: the Cumberland Plain and the Hornsby Plateau,

Climat

Sydney has a tropical humid climate with mild winters and moist summers with an average of 300 days of sunshine per year

The business district of Sydney extends south to two kilometers from Sydney Cove, site of the first European settlement. Sydney is the largest city in Australia which has the most skyscrapers, more than a hundred, mostly built since the 1970s. (

City Hall or the Queen Victoria Building)

The famous Bondi Beach, located east of the city and seven kilometers from the city center is easily accessible by train or public transport. She is best known for its fine sand and rolls therefore the possibility of surfing

Loisirs

Sydney hosts many festivals and some of the largest social and cultural events in Australia. These include the Sydney Festival (Sydney Festival), Australia's largest arts festival

Sydney has the Museum of Contemporary Art

Sydney include the famous Sydney Opera House. It has five halls , including a large concert hall for opera and dramatic theater

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The Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous buildings of the twentieth century and a hotbed of arts advocacy. Its original architecture was designed by Jørn Utzon Danish.

sydney tower is the tallest freestanding structure and the second Sydney Australia

Located in Sydney Harbour Bennelong Point, is surrounded by a wooded park south

The resulting landscape has also become a symbol of Australia, and Sydney in particular. The opera is now a major tourist attraction of the city that most visitors

Sydney Opera House was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2007 at its session held in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand .

The Harbour Bridge is a steel arch bridge located in the city of Sydney, Australia.

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