Sydney - City Center Parks

The city center is bounded on the east by a string of parks - the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Domain, Hyde Park - extending south from Farm Cove, on the east side of the Opera House, so called because the colony's first farm and vegetable gardens were here. These 70 ha of open space, divided by the expressway into the Botanic Gardens and Domain Park, were originally the Governor's Domain. It was laid out in 1810 with public footpaths and riding tracks by Governor Macquarie's wife, in whose honor the northeastern tip of the promontory is called Mrs Macquarie's Point.