Historic sights in Sydney

1. A Map

   Parramatta

   • Sydney, Australia
   • Sights › Historic

   Twenty-four kilometres west of Sydney, Parramatta (population 145,000), a Daruag Aboriginal name meaning ‘the place where eels lie down’, was Australia’s second European settlement. Sydney’s sandy soils were lousy for growing carrots – Parramatta’s river plains were chosen instead. During the 1980s, the local Rugby League team the Parramatta Eels were unbeatable, their acid-wash-clad, mullet-proud fans perpetuating Sydneysiders’ view of Parramatta as little more than a low-brow shopping-mall ’burb full of insane Neanderthals. A rash of horrendous architectural disservices has augmented this perception, but with the ’80s dead and buried, Parramatta has got on…

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