Hyde Park - a huge park, lying on the east side of the central business district of Sydney on an area of 16 hectares. Around the park is located, the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Church of St. James, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney Hospital, St. Mary's Cathedral, the Australian Museum, Downing Centre and other public buildings.
Park got its name in honor of the famous namesake in London - Hyde Park. If you look at it from above, it seems literally littered gutter covers, most of which leads to the Busby Bor - the first water supply system in Sydney, which was built between 1827 and 1837 years of using prison labor.
From the very first days of the colony open area to the southeast of the settlement was a favorite place for rest of the townspeople and various sporting events. In 1810 Governor Lachlan McGuire separate this area from the park «Domain», lying on the north and called her Hyde Park. «Domain» he kept for his personal use.
Since then, the territory of the Hyde Park hosts many sporting events - cricket matches, rugby, quoits and hockey, as well as horse riding. Here trained army units and ordinary people walking their dogs and even grazed cattle. Only in 1856, Hyde Park was converted into a public park and the sports activity it almost came to naught. Football clubs and clubs cricketers were forced to find another site for training and games.
Today, Hyde Park and smashed several gardens grow 580 trees - figs, palms and other species. The park is famous for its delightful alleys fig trees. The decoration of the park is the Archibald Fountain, designed by architect Francois Sukkar and in 1932 donated by the Australian journalist Jules Archibald for her contribution to the First World War. The roll up of the Hyde Park garden Nagoya, which is a huge attraction of the chess pieces. And located in the southern part of the War Memorial Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). At the entrance to the park from the south-east side is a monument - a 104-mm cannon with the German cruiser "Emden". At the western entrance to the park stands the 38-meter obelisk in the Egyptian style, built in 1857, which is actually a sewer pipe ...!
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