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Customs House

Address: Customs House Sq., Alfred St., Circular Quay, Sydney, New South Wales | Map It
Phone: 02/9242-8592

Category: Architectural Sites, Government Buildings
Location: Circular Quay

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Fodor's Review:

The last surviving example of the elegant sandstone buildings that once ringed Circular Quay, this former customs house now features an amazing model of Sydney under a glass floor. You can walk over the city's skyscrapers, all of which are illuminated by meters of fiber-optic lights. There's an excellent two-level library and plenty of art galleries. The rooftop Café Sydney, the standout in the clutch of restaurants and cafés in this late-19th-century structure, overlooks Sydney Cove. The building stands close to the site where the British flag was first raised on the shores of Sydney Cove in 1788.

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