Sunday in Sydney

Diana, goddess of purity
Apollo

Theseus and the Minotaur in front of Archibald Fountain

Obelisk in front of Hyde Park
On steps at Memorial
Sydney Tower

Soldier Sculpture inside Memorial
View from Memorial
Facing Anzac Memorial

Mark in entryway
Inside view

Sunday morning after a tasty breakfast of eggs, toast and tomato at the Old Vienna Coffee House (inside QVB), we walked to the southern part of Hyde Park, where we saw the Anzac War Memorial. It is architecturally interesting- built in Art Deco style in the early 1930's, it has pink granite on the outside, and has an inside domed ceiling covered with 120,000 little gold stars (hardly visible in my first photo). Mark and I were both curious about the sculpture of the soldier inside the memorial- it looked to us like a Christ figure, but is meant to be a "deceased youth" or soldier held on his shield by mother, sister, and wife figures. You can read about the controversial nature of the design here. We walked under the canopy of fig trees to Archibald Fountain, a tribute to Australia's role in the Great War in France and known as the "finest public fountain in Australia". It depicts classical Greek and Roman figures: Apollo (beauty & arts), Diana (purity & charity) and Theseus (sacrifice for humanity).