Sydney

This stop will explain how a private plan for a road became a public passage through the ridge.

The finale will show how the definition of a portrait became the subject of a court case and destroyed the friendship of two artists.

Here, the route is set by a dispute over who owns the shore and what way of life should prevail on it.

This is where the route’s main theme begins: how lifesavers responded to the force of the open ocean amid mass urban recreation.

This stop will show how lifesavers turned winter training into a rule of belonging to the club.

This stop connects a sheltered sea basin with a movement that changed competitive swimming.

The story of a former convict will show how service on the water gave one man a second career and a government house its name.

The crossing of two bays will explain the origins of their multiple names and the boundaries of marine protection.

The finale will return to the commercial baths and the investigation that began with a festive lure for the public.

Here you will see how a rare power of the governor could dismiss a premier who had retained a majority.

Here the convict system will simultaneously deprive hundreds of people of their freedom and restore it to one man.

Here you will see how a single demolition changed the city's attitude toward old buildings.

Here you will understand why navigational precision in the harbor depended on one astronomer's daily schedule.

Here, a dispute over a hereditary upper house becomes a struggle over the structure of self-government.

The failure of the first government farm explains the origins of the cove, the garden, and the surrounding park.

This stop will show how an official dispute permanently swapped the church and the courthouse.

This stop explains how a private collection was preserved for public reading rooms.

The finale will show how the Sydney Opera House's ceremonial entrance once accommodated a crowd that would not have fit in any of its halls.

The history of the fence will explain why free access to the sea had to be defended as a public right.

An ordinary procedure for accepting gold will become evidence in a criminal case here.

A small inscription makes it possible to separate family memory from an urban legend.

A lunch break reveals the Sydney Opera House before its shells—as a construction site with its own first song.