Hyde Park
Historic city-centre park with tree-lined avenues, a classical fountain and a war memorial.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hyde Park in Sydney opens with a newspaper editor's unusual will: J. F. Archibald, founder of The Bulletin, left money for a fountain on one condition, that it be sculpted by a Frenchman, no substitutes. It follows his executors' years-long search, which settled on the Parisian sculptor Francois Sicard, and the ancient lost-wax process he used to model the figures an ocean away from the park they'd stand in. Archibald himself, his trustees said, was kindly and genial but sharp as a blade.
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