Company's Garden Historical Stroll

St George's Cathedral features rough, grey sandstone walls and pointed gothic arches that distinguish it from the flatter, surrounding buildings. Known as the People’s Cathedral, it served as a defiant refuge during the apartheid era.…

The Iziko Slave Lodge stands as the oldest building in Cape Town, distinguishable by its distinct yellow facade and the heavy iron bars remaining on the ground-floor windows. Built by the Dutch East India Company in the late sixteen…

The Saffron Pear is a narrow, Victorian-era townhouse distinguished by a bright, saffron-yellow facade and a distinctive, hand-carved teak front door featuring an intricate pear motif. Built in the late eighteen nineties, the structure…

The white gabled facade of Tuynhuys stands near the top of the Company’s Garden, its Dutch colonial architecture distinct against the backdrop of Table Mountain. Originally built as a simple tool shed for the garden in the late seventeenth…

The Delville Wood Memorial in the Company's Garden features a bronze group of figures topped by a horse and rider held aloft by two men. It commemorates the South African Brigade that fought at Delville Wood in France during the First…

The South African National Gallery features a long, low facade of sandstone and decorative plaster that sits quietly within the Company's Garden. It functions as the primary art museum for the nation, housing a collection that spans from…

The Iziko South African Museum sits behind a neoclassical facade of pale, rough-hewn stone, punctuated by a prominent central portico. Established in eighteen twenty-five, it is the oldest museum in the country. Its collection began with…