Sydney Opera House 
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The Opera House is without doubt Sydney's principal tourist attraction. The situation is magnificent, and the Opera House itself is breathtaking with its complex of roofs shaped like huge shells or billowing sails. It is surrounded on three sides by water and on the fourth by the Royal Botanic Gardens. Bennelong Point, the site selected by the government in 1957 for a cultural center, bears the name of an Aborigine who traveled to Britain with Governor Arthur Phillip in 1792 and was wondered at as a noble savage but returned to Sydney in 1795, drink-sodden and rootless. An international competition for the design of the Opera House was won by a Danish architect, Jørn Utzon. From the outset there were controversies and technical problems; construction was delayed and costs mounted. In 1966 the architect, disappointed in his hopes, withdrew from the project. The Opera House was finally completed in 1973, 10 years later than planned, and was formally opened by the Queen.
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Address:
Sydney Opera House, Box R239, Royal Exchange, Sydney, NSW 1225, Australia
Hours:
9am-4:30pm; Closed: Sun
Tips: Tours available between listed hours.
Show times may vary. Tickets for shows should be booked well in advance.
Guides: Guided tour available as optional extra.
Transit: Sydney Explorer Bus stop.
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Triangular front of the Sydney Opera House.
Arches and windows of the Sydney Opera House, Sydney .
Side view of the sail-like architecture of the Sydney Opera House.
Sydney Opera House and city skyline, Sydney.
Sydney Opera House.
