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To conclude the series of articles about Sydney, we will end at the beginning, I mean you talk about that part of Sydney where it all began.

In 1770 Captain Cook explored the east coast of Australia during the first of his three great voyages of exploration. Document a site that seemed appropriate to set up a settlement which he called "Botany Bay." This site really is the next bay south of Sydney, and is where today are the airport and for entering most of the goods, fuel ...

Then in 1776 the English, for many movies do triumphalist, had to go to what is now the United States after the rain of cakes that they fell by land and by sea. That forced them to find new places to expand. Drew on the advice of Captain Cook, with 11 ships and nearly 1,500 people (more than half the convicts) were planted in Botany Bay in mid-January 1788. The fact is that this site was not what I expected and ended up going further north in search of a site with better shelter for their boats with better access to potable water and ultimately easier to live. So it was that on January 26, entered the bay of Sydney and settled in the neighborhood now called "The Rocks" (rocks).


The oldest residential building that remains in Sydney is "Cadman's cottage" of 1816, which served as host for the boatmen of the government.


The building of the currency (the Mint) which we have discussed is the oldest building in Sydney. However the oldest buildings are out of Sydney Australia, in Rose Hill and Parramatta.

Life in the district of the Rocks "was always linked to maritime transport. You can still see many store houses with their pulleys and everything.



There is even a street reminiscent of old European cities. In this narrow passage known as the "Suez Canal"


The neighborhood has some very nice restaurants. This old building houses a popular restaurant serving traditional German ... you know liter beers, sausages and roast pork. If you look in the back showed three men dressed in Bavarian, are the local musicians in a matter of throwing a cigarette before the performance.


Besides restaurants the area is full of shops and other businesses many of them stuck in the nineteenth century historic buildings.



And finally, if you come to visit you must take a beer at the bar that, according to the sign proclaims it is the oldest in Australia, the "Fortune of War" (Fortune of War).