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Harry Potter Building

🌟 University of Sydney: An Academic Hall in the Century-Old Chimes ✨ Step into the main building of the University of Sydney, and it feels like entering a medieval English world! This sandstone building, begun in 1854, carries the academic warmth of over a century and a half, telling the story of Australia's oldest university through Gothic spires and arches. 🏰 Landmark of Camperdown Founded in 1850 as Australia's first university, the University of Sydney is located in the quiet suburb of Camperdown. The main building’s design is inspired by Oxford and Cambridge, yet it unexpectedly incorporates Australian sandstone features—bathed in sunlight, the entire complex shines with a dazzling golden hue! 🎓 A Teaching Building Like a Time Capsule • Century-long construction: From its foundation to completion over a hundred years, it has witnessed every important moment in Australian science, literature, and politics • Living relic: The main building’s interior is still in use today, with carved marks on the wooden desks and chairs serving as historical notes • Magical Easter egg: Although rumors of Harry Potter filming here are untrue, standing beneath the quadrangle clock tower, you might almost hear the Sorting Hat rustling 📜 Interesting Details The figure walking between the columns—could it be a 19th-century chancellor or a contemporary professor? The academic robes here still retain the Victorian style. And in the light and shadow cast by the clock tower, every graduation season you can capture stunning photos of "passing through a time tunnel." The sandstone complex of the University of Sydney is like a three-dimensional history book, with every stone engraved with the clash of ideas. Standing in the center of the quadrangle, you can’t tell if the echoes in your ears are the current laughter and joy or the passionate debates of students from a hundred years ago.
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