There is no doubt, it is to think about Australia and in addition to the image of a kangaroo and a koala, the Sydney Opera House appears in your head. So much so that it is the number one tourist destination in the country, it cannot be missing in any travel itinerary through Australia and, of course, it is one of those places that you have to see in Sydney even if you have very little time.

The Sydney Opera House building

Today there are many buildings with shapes completely removed from the classic vertical line. Sloping, bulging, undulating walls ? abound in large cities.

But when the Sydney Opera House was built in the mid-twentieth century, the effect was almost as exciting as admiring the first Gothic cathedral. That which had only been an idea crossed out as impossible could be put into practice.
As it happened decades later with the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the opera house put Sydney on the map. It mattered little that it was a concert hall, it could have been the building of a museum or a prison.

It was his groundbreaking design and his position on the bay that made up that image that was exported to the rest of the world.

Despite that, it was not until 34 years after its completion, in 2007, when it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Jorn Utzon, the visionary architect

The visionary architect who designed the one that would become a symbol of the whole country was Jorn Utzon. By the name it seems that very Australian ...