Yagan Square
Elevated play space of rock-shaped mounds and climbing nets beside a giant digital tower and open-air amphitheatre.
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About this audio guide
Yagan Square in Perth turns on a strange fact: on the days that matter most to local football fans, nobody at this city square holds a ticket to the game. The guide follows what happens when thousands gather anyway, beneath a forty-five-metre tower crowned with bulrushes, above a playground shaped from Western Australia's own landforms. It also traces the square's older life as a Noongar meeting place beside a vanished chain of lakes. Stand near the amphitheatre steps and you can watch both the climbing mounds and the big screen at once.
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