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Sydney opera / Sydney harbour bridge

If you are planning to experience the glamour and glitz of this wonderful city make sure to book accommodation well in advance, as this place has grown increasingly popular with visitors the world over in recent years.

By: Emiley David
Category: Automotive:Trucks
: Business
Posted: Jul 04, 2011
Updated: Jul 04, 2011
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Sydney is Australia's largest metropolitan city and is the great popular tourist destination in the country, for reasons that include its pleasant climate, multicultural heritage, and iconic landmarks. Around three million tourists visit Sydney each year to surf its legendary beaches and visit famous attractions like the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Tower, and the Queen Victoria Building.

Well known by the locals as the Coast Hanger because of its appearance, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is an impressive bridge with beautiful structure. The Sydney Opera House is a world class performing arts center, with distinctive roof of sails patterned tiles, vast terraced areas set against the dramatic backdrop of Sydney Harbour. An ice cream in hand and enjoying the breeze is the most gorgeous thing you can do while taking pleasure in the poetic vocals

The iconic Sydney Opera House is debatably the city's most recognizable landmark. Its shell-like architecture is one of the primary things that come to most people's minds when they think of Sydney. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is one of the most renowned performing arts centers in the world. To start with, Sydney Opera House is made up of six smaller venues: Opera Theatre, Concert Hall, Drama Theatre, Playhouse, Studio, and the award-winning Guillaume Bennelong restaurant. A seventh space, The Forecourt, hosts free community events and outsized scale outdoor performances.

Some of the important and interesting information of Sidney Opera House are:

•War and Peace by Prokofiev is the first performance performed in the stage of opera
•The amount spent to construct this building is about $AU 102,000,000
•every year nearly 3000 events are conducted in the Opera.
•This centre holds about 1000 rooms in it.
•The length of the house is 185 meters long and the width is 120 meters and its roof has about 2194 pre-cast concrete parts and the roof holds nearly 1 million tiles.

Sydney Harbour Bridge, also very close to Sydney Opera house is nicknamed "The Coathanger" for its shape, is significant to Australian national pride, as well as tourism. The bridge's southeast pylon serves as a watch out point, and there are arranged climbs that allow adventure-seeking tourists to scale the southern half of the bridge. Both day and night tours are available and climbers are supplied with all necessary equipment and briefed before setting off on this three-and-a-half-hour journey.

The performance venues of Sidney Opera House include the Concert Hall with a number of 2,678 seats, Opera Theatre with 1507 seats, Drama Theatre with 544 seats, Playhouse having 398 seats, the Studio with 400 people, the Utzon room with 210 seats and the Forecourt which is a open-air venue most used for outdoor performances.

Apart from shows and performances, different kind of conferences and parties are also conducted in this art centre. Having the title of most visited tourist spots it attracts around 7 million people each year.

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