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Church of the Good Shepherd on Robben Island The Cape Town City Hall, with Table Mountain in the background Disa Park Victoria & Alfred Waterfront Maclear's Beacon, a triangulation station used in the calculation of the curvature of the Earth Lion's Head, part of the Table Mountain National Park
Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [13] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [14] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain. It is a memorial to the English -born South African politician Cecil John Rhodes (1853 – 1902), was designed by architect Herbert Baker and finished in 1912.
Cape Town, South Africa Located between Table Mountain and Signal Hill, Lion's Head is well known for its striking 360-degree panorama: Gaze down upon all of Cape Town on one side, and Table ...
Originally established during Cape Town's colonial era, Trafalgar Park has evolved into a popular community hub featuring playgrounds, sports fields, and picnic areas. 9/2/018/0290/001 Central Redoubt, Trafalgar Park, Woodstock, Cape Town This fortress was hastily built in 1781, when an attack by British forces on the Cape was expected.
Disa Park is one of the best-known pieces of architecture in the Vredehoek area of Cape Town, South Africa.The towers were built in response to a "white housing crisis" in the city and completed in 1969. [2]
This list of tallest buildings in Cape Town ranks completed buildings by height in the South African city of Cape Town, Western Cape, the second-largest city in South Africa. [1] Cape Town's tallest building is the Portside Tower , which stands at 139 m (456 ft); the tower was built in 2014 and was the first significant tall building erected in ...
Cape Town first received local self-government in 1839, with the promulgation of a municipal ordinance by the government of the Cape Colony. [4] When it was created, the Cape Town municipality governed only the central part of the city known as the City Bowl, and as the city expanded, new suburbs became new municipalities, until by 1902 there were 10 separate municipalities in the Cape ...