Hyde Park is a huge Park located on the Eastern side of the Central business district of Sydney on the area of 16 ha. Around the Park there is the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Church of St. James, Barracks Hyde Park, Sydney Hospital, St Mary's Cathedral, Australian Museum, Downing centre and other public buildings.

Its name, the Park was named in honor of the famous London namesake – Hyde Park. If you look at it from above, it seems literally littered with covers of drains, most of which leads to Busby Bor – the first system of water supply of Sydney, built between 1827 and 1837 for years using prison labour.

From the earliest days of the founding of the colony open area to the South-East of the settlement was a favorite place for townspeople and various sporting events. In 1810 Governor Lachlan Macair separated this area from the Park "Domain", lying to the North, and named it Hyde Park. "Domain" he retained for his personal use.

Since on-site Hyde Park has played host to numerous sporting events – cricket, Rugby, throwing rings at a target and field hockey, and horse racing. Here trained army units, and ordinary people walking their dogs and even cattle grazed. Only in 1856 Hyde Park was turned into a public Park, and sports activity in it nearly came to nothing. Football clubs and cricket players were forced to find other venues for trainings and games.

Today in Hyde Park smashed several gardens and grows 580 trees – figs, palms and other species. The Park is famous for its delightful alleys Fig trees. The decoration of the Park is the Archibald Fountain, designed by architect Francois Sukkar and in 1932 donated by Australian journalist Jules Archibald for her merits in the First World war. In Severnoi part of Hyde Park, a Garden Nagoya, which is a huge attraction chess pieces. And in the southern part of located War memorial Australian and new Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC). At the entrance to the Park from the South-East side is a monument - 104-millimeter gun with the German cruiser "Emden". At the Western entrance to the Park stands a 38-meter obelisk in the Egyptian style, built in 1857, which is actually... a sewage pipe! I can add description