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The Iziko South African National Gallery is the national art gallery of South Africa located in Cape Town. It became part of the Iziko collection of museums – as managed by the Department of Arts and Culture – in 2001. It then became an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture. Its collection consists largely of Dutch, French and ...
View north-eastwards across the city bowl of Cape Town from Lion's Head. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Cape Town: Cape Town – capital city of the Western Cape province and legislative capital of South Africa.
The Iziko South African Museum is a South African national museum located in Cape Town. The museum was founded in 1825, the first in the country. It has been on its present site in the Company's Garden since 1897. The museum houses important African zoology, palaeontology and archaeology collections. [1]
8001. Area code. +27 (0)21. The Bo-Kaap (lit. "above the Cape" in Afrikaans) is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of Signal Hill above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town.
This is a list of the heritage sites near Cape Town as recognized by the South African Heritage Resources 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.
There are twelve World Heritage Sites in South Africa. [3] The first three sites in South Africa were added to the list in 1999 while the most recent ones, the Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites and the Pleistocene Occupation Sites of South Africa, were added in 2024. Seven sites are listed for their cultural significance, four for natural, and one ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) 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. For additional provincial heritage sites declared by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage ...
World Heritage Sites. Cape Floral Region Protected Areas [1] Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs [2] iSimangaliso Wetland Park [3] Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape [4] Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape [5] Robben Island [6] Maloti-Drakensberg Park [7] Vredefort Dome [8]