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    OTHER WORLDLY

    Jul 16, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS CHRISTINE REID
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    BRIGID ARNOTT

    CLASSICS SCHOLARS and art historians will be familiar with Arcadia. It is the Greek name for a place of rural peace and calm, originally derived from a pastoral area on southern Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula.

    Few people know there is also an Arcadia in Australia, tucked 44 kilometres away from Sydney’s CBD. Aptly named, it is also a place of peace, calm and serenity.

    Developed in the 19th century as a fruit-growing area to make the most of a temperate climate and good soil, this Arcadia

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