Cape Town

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The exact date when the Village of Salt River was established is not known but in 1665 the Settlement is recorded to hav...

Robben Island Museum (RIM) is a public entity responsible for managing, maintaining, presenting, developing and marketin...

This double-storey mill and private residence was erected by Jacob Letterstedt in the 1840's. It now forms an integral p...

In the 18th century, this area was known by the Dutch as 'De Waterplaats' (The foreshore). The Green Point Common was ve...

Parow was a residential suburb of Cape Town, located some 16km from the city centre. It was established by Johann Heinri...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 March 1979.  The Union, was a Tavern occupyi...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 21 September 1962. A part of the Cape Town Campus of...

National Monument

The Arboretum was laid out in 1885 by Joseph Storr Lister, Conservator of Forests of the Western Conservancy of the Cape...

The circle of Kramats in Cape Town is a shrine to Muslim holy men buried in Cape Town. Legend goes that it is this circl...

Observatory was a residential suburb of Cape Town, and derived its name from the Royal Observatory, which was establishe...

The Seaside Resort of St. James was located on False Bay, some 26 km South of Cape Town, the Suburb derived its name fro...

The settlement of Springfield was established sometime before December 1896, and in August 1898 its name was changed to ...

The Building, originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek...

Situated on the Northern slope of Table Mountain is a must see Memorial too Cecil John Rhodes. Behind the Memorial lies ...

Situated at the foot of Signal Hill, on the fringe of the city centre, and formerly known as the Malay Quarter, the Bo-K...

The railway line from Cape Town reached Maitland on 13 February 1862.

The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered ...

Early Dutch Settlers soon realised that Hout Bay could serve as an alternative anchorage when prevailing winds made Tabl...

Table Bay is a natural inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, overlooked by Cape Town and the famous Natural Table Mountain. ...

This is a large Edwardian building in the centre of Cape Town city. It was built in 1905, on the Grand parade, west of t...

Archbishop's Desmonds Funeral

The vault is huge, well looked after, with a fence that nobody can cross!  It was erected in 1827 by the widow of P...

Simon's Town Magistrate's Court is next to Goede Hoop in Simon's Town and is located in City of Cape Town, Western Cape,...

The Alphen Estate was granted to Theunis van Schalkwyk in 1714. Its Historic Homestead is a square plan double-storey ma...

In 1657 the VOC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven...

It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 22 September 1978.

In 1799, during the first British occupation of the Cape, the Governor, Sir George Yonge, appropriated a portion of Rieb...

In 1657 the VoC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven...

The Victorian Gothic-style Clock Tower is an icon of the old Cape Town Harbour. It was declared a National Monument unde...

David Christiaan de Waal, a close friend of Cecil John Rhodes and mayor of Cape Town in 1889 and 1890,

The All Saints complex, which includes the original church and the old parsonage, as well as a church hall and a garden ...

The structure was erected in 1799-1801 by Alexander Tennant, in Simonstown. It was declared a National Monument und...

The Cape Town Hebrew Congregation, which built the Great Synagogue, was founded in 1841. This makes it, after the Sydney...

The Building dates from the mid-18th Century and its ownership was transferred to the Admiralty in 1814. Rear-Admiral Ja...

There is probably no building in South Africa that is better known than the Groote Kerk. Jan van Riebeeck brought the Re...

The property was granted to Matthys Coeymans in 1669 and its homestead was subsequently erected in a Cape Dutch style. D...

Mystery and romance surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cot...