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Extracts from: Conolly's Guide To Southern Africa

Cape Town and Table Mountain -
The Tavern of the Seas
Table Mountain, visible from as far out to sea as 200 kilometres, has always made the anchorage of Table Bay easy to find. This is the beacon of shelter and refreshment - the famed Tavern of the Seas..... Read more Western Cape Accommodation

Cape Town The Mountain Ranges & -
The V&A Waterfront
Another strikingly beautiful feature of the Cape is this 669m high sugar-loaf peak on the Atlantic side of Table Mountain, connected to it by the saddle of land known as Kloof Nek. The naming of Lion's Head remains obscure...... Read more Western Cape Accommodation

Foreshore - Roggebaai, Heerengracht - Adderley Street
Cape town's reclaimed Foreshore led to the unique opportunity for the planning, on a grand scale, of an entire new front to an old city. It originated following the massive dredging of Table Bay....... Read more Western Cape Accommodation

The Castle of Good Hope - Cape Town
South Africa's oldest building remaining in use, The Castle of Good Hope, had its foundation stones laid on 2nd January 1666 by Commander Zacharias Wagenaer some 220 meters to the east of the site of van Riebeeck's original mud-walled fort,....... Read more Western Cape Accommodation

Grand Parade and City Hall - Church Square - the Slave Lodge and the Groote Kerk - Cape Town
Historically the Parade is older than the Castle; it was in use as the parade-ground before the construction of the Castle was completed and takes its place among our important national monuments. In the seventeenth century it stretched from the Heerengracht (now Adderley Street);....... Read more Western Cape Accommodation

Greenmarket Square and the Old Town House - Strand Street - Cape Town
The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw a natural development of Cape Town when the first business centre midway between fashionable Sea Street (Strand Street) and the entrance to the Company's garden (the Avenue) came into existence;....... Read more Western Cape Accommodation

Company's Garden and Government Avenue - Cape Town
Van Riebeeck received very definite instructions from the Lords Seventeen, his masters of the United East India Company, to build a fort and a garden and these tasks along with many others he performed creditably.... Read more Western Cape Accommodation