Newtown

Worth seeing in and around Newtown

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   University of Sydney

   The University of Sydney is a public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in both Australia and Oceania.

   1.7 km · Australian university founded in 1850 · Wikipedia
2. 02
   University of Technology Sydney

   The University of Technology Sydney is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1988, though its origins as a technical institution can be traced back to the 1870s.

   2.7 km · university in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Citigroup Centre

   Citigroup Centre is a 243-metre skyscraper located on Park Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The building draws its name from Citigroup Australia who is the anchor tenant.

   4 km · skyscraper in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Anzac Memorial

   The Anzac Memorial is a heritage-listed war memorial, museum and monument located in Hyde Park South near Liverpool Street in the CBD of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Art Deco monument was designed by C. Bruce Dellit, with the exterior adorned with monumental figural reliefs and sculptures by Rayner Hoff, and built from 1932 to 1934 by Kell & Rigby.

   4 km · memorial and museum in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Sydney Town Hall

   The Sydney Town Hall is a late 19th-century heritage-listed town hall building in the city of Sydney, the capital city of New South Wales, Australia, housing the chambers of the Lord Mayor of Sydney, council offices, and venues for meetings and functions. It is located at 483 George Street, in the Sydney central business district opposite the Queen Victoria Building and alongside St Andrew's Cathedral.

   3.8 km · city hall and performance venue · Wikipedia
6. 06
   ANZAC Bridge

   The Anzac Bridge is an eight-lane cable-stayed bridge that carries the Western Distributor across Johnstons Bay between Pyrmont and Glebe Island, on the western fringe of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge forms part of the road network leading from the central business district, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Cross City Tunnel to the Inner West and Northern Suburbs.

   3.3 km · cable-stayed bridge in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Sea Life Sydney Aquarium

   SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium is a public aquarium in Sydney, Australia. Opened in 1988, it features a large variety of Australian aquatic life, displaying more than 700 species comprising more than 13,000 individual fish and other sea and water creatures from most of Australia's water habitats.

   3.9 km · aquarium in Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Chinese Garden of Friendship

   The Chinese Garden of Friendship is a heritage-listed 1.03-hectare Chinese garden at 1 Harbour Street, in the Sydney Central Business District, New South Wales, Australia. Modelled after the classic private gardens of the Ming dynasty, the garden offers an insight into Chinese heritage and culture.

   3.4 km · Chinese garden in Chinatown, Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Australian National Maritime Museum

   The Australian National Maritime Museum is a federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a national maritime museum would be constructed at Darling Harbour, tied into the New South Wales state government's redevelopment of the area for the Australian bicentenary in 1988.

   3.8 km · maritime museum in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
10. 10
    St Andrew's Cathedral

    St Andrew's Cathedral is a cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the Anglican Church of Australia. The cathedral is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney and Metropolitan of New South Wales.

    3.8 km · cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Newtown

Airports

Sydney Kingsford Smith (SYD), 5 km · Newcastle (NTL), 137 km

Stations

Central railway station, 3.2 km · Museum railway station, 3.9 km

• Williamtown → Newtown

  135 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · A$21–28
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• Gold Coast → Newtown

  77 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · A$11–15
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• Toowoomba → Newtown

  2 km · quickest by road, 9 min · A$0.5
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No local-transport research exists yet for Newtown

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Newtown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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