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This is a list of the heritage sites in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, as recognized by the South African Heritage Resource Agency. [1]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.
Cape Town: 1640s Fort Simon Stellenbosch: 1997 Somerset Hospital: Cape Town: 1864 Stone Castle Saldanha: Knysna Fort: Knysna: 1899 Veretti Castle Mossel Bay: 2004 Vergelegen Estate: Somerset West: 1700 Villa Anna Katarina Riebeek-Kasteel: Welgeluk Ostrich Palace Oudtshoorn: 1910 West Fort Hout Bay
This bridge, which is situated just where the main road to the Strand and Sir Lowry’s Pass leaves the town of Somerset West, marks an important event in the history of communications in South Africa. Type of site: Bridge. Current use: Bridge. Cape Town, Somerset West: Somerset West Provincial Heritage Site
The Castle, Newcastle, or Newcastle Castle is a medieval fortification in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, built on the site of the fortress that gave the City of Newcastle its name. The most prominent remaining structures on the site are the Castle Keep (the castle's main fortified stone tower, pictured below right), and the Black Gate, its ...
As remembrance to this event a street was named Tulbagh. This street, together with Vredekloof Street in Vredekloof, Brackenfell, is known for the bird Cape robin-chat commonly known as Jan Frederik. [14] The bastions of the Castle of Good Hope were remembered in street names, namely Leerdam, Buren, Katzenellenbogen and Nassau. [15]
Desmond Hall and Castle, also called Desmond Castle and Banqueting Hall or Newcastle West Medieval Complex and Desmond Hall, are a set of medieval buildings and National Monuments located in Newcastle West, Ireland. [1] For over 200 years, it belonged to the Fitzgerald family, Earls of Desmond.
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The estate was settled in 1700 by an early Governor of the Cape, Willem Adriaan van der Stel. Van der Stel used the resources of his employer, the Dutch East India Company , to improve the estate, and in 1706 a number of free burghers at the Cape drew up a formal memorandum complaining about van der Stel's illegal activities.