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Parramatta

Parramatta is both geographical heart of the Harbour city and one of its most historic neighbourhoods. Our visitors guide: Discover Parramatta is the essential guide to where to stay, play, eat, and what to see and do.

Featuring a treasury of information about the city's many heritage and nearby attractions, as well as it's brilliant range of restaurants, shopping, accommodation, conference and sporting facilities, let Discover Parramatta be your guide to all our city has to offer.

Shortly after the arrival of the British First Fleet in 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip established Parramatta as a market town to supply fresh produce to the new settlement at Sydney Cove. Parramatta then outshone Sydney as a cultural and social centre for a time.

As a result Parramatta has some excellent examples of early colonial architecture including Old Government House, Elizabeth Farm, St John's Cathedral, the Lancer Barracks and the Linden House Museum.

Today's Parramatta is a modern city with a range of cafes and restaurants exploring cuisines from around the globe, large shopping centres, cinemas, theatre and the Rosehill Racecourse.

The area around Sydney town was hilly, heavily timbered, lacking in fresh water and useless for farming. The river at Parramatta was beyond the tidal boundary and fresh.

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Parramatta, though considered a 'suburb', is a city in its own right and actually the geographic centre of the Sydney Metropolitan Area. It is a large business centre with a smattering of historically very important buildings.

It was the site of the first experimental farm in the colony. Experiment Farm Cottage (Ruse Street), built in 1834 and furnished in the style of the 1830s, is open daily. Built between 1799 and 1816, Old Government House is the oldest remaining public building in Australia in the grounds of Parramatta Park. St Johns Cathedral, built in 1803, is the oldest church in Parramatta right in its main street, Church Street.

Parramatta is best a understood with a visit to the visitors centre which features Parramatta: People and Place, a major exhibition that traces the development of Parramatta, and can then be explored following a walking map.

Located just 6km west of Sydney Olympic Park, Parramatta is easily accessed on a picturesque Rivercat ferry ride up the western arm of Sydney Harbour. Stroll along the Harris Park Heritage Walk that links the Rivercat with historic properties in East Parramatta. The Riverside walk features Aboriginal artwork inviting you to explore the story of the Parramatta river.

Visit the Parramatta Heritage and Visitors Information Centre, the perfect starting point to experience the area known as "Sydney's Living Museum". Catch a performance at the Parramatta Riverside Theatres, offering drama and comedy shows.

Have a flutter at nearby Rosehill Gardens, home of the famous Golden Slipper. Step back in time at Old Government House (1799) home to the early governors and see some of the finest Australian colonial furniture in the country.

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