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At the Dias Cross Memorial on the coast of South Africa's Eastern Cape province, there is a padrão replica on a promontory at what is now known as Kwaaihoek; it was placed by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 to mark the site of his most easterly landfall after becoming the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope. The original padrão ...
SAHRA identifier Site name Description Town District NHRA status Coordinates Image 9/2/018/0001 Fort Wynyard, Green Point, Cape Town : Fort Wynyard was erected in 1860 near the site where the Dutch East India Company's battery "Kyk in de Pot", which was dismantled between 1825 and 1827, stood.
This is a list of the heritage sites in Cape Town's CBD, the Waterfront, and the Bo-Kaap as recognized by the South African Heritage Resources Agency. [1] [2]For additional provincial heritage sites declared by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape Province of South Africa, please see the entries at the end of the list.
Roman Rock Lighthouse is a lighthouse in False Bay, near Simon's Town. It is the only lighthouse in South Africa built on a single rock. [1] [2] The light was first exhibited on 16 September 1861. [3] The light was electrified in 1992 at the request of the South African Navy. [4]
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Café Caprice is a beach bar and restaurant located on Camps Bay Beach in Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The café is noted for its cocktails [2] [3] and for the celebrities that frequent it. [4] [1] [5] South African rugby player and restaurateur, James Small, was an owner and founder of the club. [6]
The V&A Waterfront is a central part of the very beginning of the settlement of the city of Cape Town. [14] In 1654, two years after his arrival in this relatively safe bay at the foot of Table Mountain, Jan van Riebeeck built a small jetty as part of his task to establish a refreshment station at the Cape. [14]
The Japanese government in 1932 erected a granite-like stone lantern which was handed to the government of Cape Town in appreciation of their benevolence towards Japanese immigrants in the 1930s. "According to Crump & van Niekerk (1988) [7] this gift was the first of two gifts from the Government of Japan." The gift symbolises a political co ...