Parramatta home to Australia's oldest cemeteries

Posted: 03 Oct 08 | Parramatta is home to many of Australia's oldest cemeteries including the oldest pioneer cemetery, St John's Cemetery, which was established in 1790 and has 17 First Fleet graves. |

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Large Crowd at Opening of Parramatta's Bavarian Bier Cafe

Posted: 03 Jul 08 | It was a full house at the invitation-only opening of Parramatta's first German beer hall in June, with more than 300 locals turning up. |

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Parramatta: A City Of Cafes

Posted: 27 Jun 08 | Parramatta has been known as a city of churches but today it could equally be known as a city of cafes, and not just your average suburban type. There is the tiny Tea Tree Cafe inside a design shop, the historic tea rooms at Elizabeth Farm, the tranquil Lake Parramatta Cafe and chocolate paradise at Max Brenner. |

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Sounds of the soul with Kribi on sax

Posted: 13 Jun 08 | Some of the best music in Parramatta has to be the rich and mellow sounds of the saxaphone, played by Kribi on Thursday and Friday lunchtimes. |

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Parramatta: A City of Churches

Posted: 04 Jun 08 | Parramatta claims more historical buildings still standing than the Sydney CBD, as well as more than 1000 heritage-listed buildings. A fair few of these are churches. |

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Parramatta ready for a little bit of soul and style

Posted: 28 May 08 | Proposed changes to entertainment laws could be just what Parramatta needs to breath a little bit of soul and style into its nightlife and arts sector, even some sophistication, chic and ambience -- perhaps a milieu or mise-en-scene. |

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Parramatta CBD's green oasis

Posted: 22 May 08 | A little piece of paradise in Parramatta ... and it's not so little. Parramatta Park is 85 hectares of rolling fields, waterways, gardens and bushland, right next to the city's CBD. |

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Workers club a friendly newcomer

Posted: 16 May 08 | Take a short walk out of the rush and bustle of Parramatta's CBD, heading east along George Street, and you'll find a small and friendly club facing the Parramatta River. |

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Food street embraces contemporary style

Posted: 01 May 08 | Parramatta's food street, Church Street, is moving up-market with all four restaurants on the corners of Church and Phillip streets getting a contemporary make-over. |

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Gold mine of local activities

Posted: 04 Apr 08 | Fronting Parramatta River, next to Lennox Bridge and opposite Riverside Theatres, is a veritable gold mine for anyone interested in what's hot in Parramatta today -- or in its history, or in the genealogy of its residents. |

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Parramatta Artists Studios become creative hub

Posted: 26 Mar 08 | By Mark Symonds ..... The popularity and success of the new Parramatta Artists Studios in Parramatta's CBD, was more than evident at the recent launch of another highly successful western Sydney arts-initiative, "Artfiles". |

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Paris or Parramatta: A bohemian lifestyle?

Posted: 26 Mar 08 | By Mark Symonds ..... It may not be Paris's Cafe de Flore or Les Deux Magots -- favoured hangouts of writers and artists in the French capital -- but The Mars Hill Cafe in Parramatta has become a meeting place for local artists, musos and literati. |

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Parramatta Park has place in UFO history

Posted: 26 Mar 08 | By Mark Symonds ..... If history repeats itself then Parramatta Park could be the exact place in Sydney from where to spot a UFO. |

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Historical sites leave Sydney's CBD for dead

Posted: 26 Mar 08 | By Mark Symonds ..... EVEN people who have lived in Parramatta for years seem to forget that it's Australia's second oldest European settlement (November 1788) after Sydney (January 1788) -- and at one stage had more people than Sydney. |

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