Places to visit by region

BLUE MOUNTAINS


Everglades Gardens, Leura.
Photo: Johnathan Miller
From Everglades Gardens, where the Danish-born landscape gardener Paul Sorensen created one of the most spectacular inter-war period gardens; to Norman Lindsay Gallery, home of Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), one of Australia’s most controversial, exceptional and prolific artists; to Woodford Academy, one of the oldest buildings still standing in the Blue Mountains.

Discover the Blue Mountains rich heritage.


SYDNEY


Old Government House, Parramatta
Photo: Johnathan Miller
From Expermint Farm Cottage, the site of the first land grant in Australia, made to the exconvict James Ruse; to Old Government House, home to ten early colonial governors and Australia’s oldest public building; to Lindesay, Built in the Gothic Revival style in 1834 by the Colonial Treasurer Campbell Drummond Riddell; to S.H. Ervin Gallery, one of Sydney’s leading public art galleries known for exhibitions that explore the Australian visual arts – historical and contemporary – and present it in new contexts; to Vienna Cottage, one of a small number of extant stone cottages built in the nineteenth century in Hunters Hill.


REGIONAL NSW


Riversdale, Goulburn
Photo: Johnathan Miller
From Cooma Cottage, On the banks of the Yass River, in the heart of the rich sheep grazing country ; to Riversdale,  renowned for its collection of fine Australian Colonial furniture, arts and craft ; to Saumarez Homestead, a ten-hectare grazing property was first inhabited by British settlers led by Henry Dumaresq in the 1830s; plus many more (see below)