Newcastle, New South Wales

Introduction

"Venice of the south", as someone once described it, may be a tad fanciful, but grubby old Newcastle, hill-draped between ocean and estuary, is still one of the country's - maybe the world's - most spectacularly sited cities. Home, too, to some truly luscious architecture, from the worn-weatherboard seasidery on Nobby's Hill to the grandeur of Vernon and Barnet's sandstone precinct.

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