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Marble Bar Review
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Marble Bar
- Address: Hilton Sydney, 259 Pitt St., City Center, Sydney, New South Wales | Map It
- Phone: 02/9265-6094
- Category: Architectural Sites
- Location: City Center
Fodor's Review:
Stop in the Marble Bar to experience a masterpiece of Victorian extravagance. The 1890 bar was formerly in another building that was constructed on the profits of the horse-racing track, thus establishing the link between gambling and majestic public architecture that has its modern-day parallel in the Sydney Opera House. Threatened with demolition in the 1970s, the whole bar was moved -- marble arches, color-glass ceiling, elaborately carved woodwork, paintings of voluptuous nudes, and all -- to its present site. By night the basement bar serves as a backdrop for live music.
- Closed: Closed Sun.
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