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Australia as a country was founded in 1901, so there's plenty of historic stuff from that era over here (it was only settled by europeans 113 years before that,
by loktarogar 8y ago
Australia as a country was founded in 1901, so there's plenty of historic stuff from that era over here (it was only settled by europeans 113 years before that, so there's a very small window for historic buildings)
- ajmurmann 8y agoI think you are adding to their point. To people from Europe or Asia that's just not even a historic timescale.
- loktarogar 8y agoI'm saying that just because something isn't that old relatively, doesn't mean it doesn't have historical value. There's definitely some historic buildings in australia, especially from colonial time.
- stevekemp 8y agoSimilar story here in Finland. Officially the country is 100 years old, but of course people have been living here for much longer than that. Sadly there is little evidence of them though, because they built their houses from wood. By contrast the city I grew up in, York, had stone walls that are ~2000 years old. The next city I lived, Edinburgh, has some proper-old buildings too. e.g. The Royal mile contains buildings from the 12th century, and I regularly used to drink in pubs that were 600-800 years old. In short "old" is relative.
- andrewem 8y agoMy favorite historical thing in York was seeing the Roman foundations under the cathedral (York Minster). You can see a similar thing next to the cathedral in Leon, Spain (whose name came from "legio" for Legion, since it was originally a Roman army camp, rather than "Leon" meaning "lion" as it's called now.)