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Landmarks also help make Sydney unique.
Several sites will probably figure prominently in the background of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, such as the Sydney Opera House. Sydney is hosting a film festival this week. Since its opening in 1973, it's been the site of performances of opera, ballet and theater in four distinct theaters of varying sizes. With some 3,000 performances each year seen by roughly two million people, it's considered one of the world's busiest performing arts centers. In the early days when Australia was an English penal colony, convicts were placed in this building.