Sydney, New South Wales Travel Guide
Sydney is the Harbor City and is the largest, oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world’s most beautiful and livable cites. Sydney is the oldest European settlement in Australia, having been founded as a British penal colony on 26 January 1788 and nowadays people celebrated as Australia Day, the national public holiday. The city is one of the most cosmopolitan cities on the planet, with one third of population born overseas. European settlement largely displaced the Aboriginal peoples, and over the years, with the earliest colonists largely coming from England, Ireland and Scotland.
Sydney is comfortable for travelers to visit any time of year. The city enjoys over 300 sunny days each year. In summer, the weather can be humid, and sometimes have searing dry winds, but they frequently end with a "southerly buster", a cold front sweeping up from the south and is the best time to enjoy Sydney's beachside outdoor lifestyle. And in autumn, the weather tend be quite wet, but still warm with mild nights. There can be good days for the beach in March. And winter (June to August) is cool, not cold and it does not snow in Sydney. One important thing is that Sydney is a year-round city and only the outdoor water-parks close for the winter. And spring is Sydney's driest month. Visitors come to Sydney ought to know that spring days are great for exploring Sydney's attractions, bushwalking, cycling, and the outdoors. Beaches are generally patrolled from the end of October, and Sydneysiders start flocking to the beaches in November.
Sydney’s skyline is large and widely recognizable and also possesses a wide array of diversity of modern and old architectural style. They range from the simple Francis Greenways Georgian buildings to Jorn Utzon’s Expressionist Sydney Opera House. And Sydney also has a large amount of Victorian buildings, such as the Sydney Town Hall and the Queen Victoria Building. And he Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is the most architecturally significant.
Sydney is a major global city and becomes one of the most important cities for finance in the Asia-Pacific. Besides, Sydney hosted the first Olympics of the new millennium, and continues to attract and host large international events. The city is surrounded by nature and national parks, which extend into the suburbs and right to the shores of the harbor. And Sydney was regarded as the center of the world’s attention in September 2000 when the city hosted the 2000 Summer Olympics.
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