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Map of Cape Town

editor — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 04:26:00 +0000

There are places that are less well known, other than to those who use them. The Lodge de Goede Hoop is one, Herbert Baker’s Welgelegen is another. Here hang James Durdan’s paintings; the only record of what Baker’s interiors looked like when the Currey family lived there. And then there’s the 18th-century Huguenot House in Loop Street, now the home of Prins & Prins Diamonds. Its past was painstakingly unravelled as layers of old paint were peeled away to reveal the remains of a previously magnificent range of decorated interiors. There’s the Nederlandse Gereformeerde Kerk Tafelberg in Buitenkant Street which,

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Cape Town Map

editor — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:08:00 +0000

Cape Town has a rich architectural heritage. Have you ever stopped for a moment and wondered what lies beyond the facades of the buildings you most probably drive past every day? Our city, like any other, is often just the wallpaper in our lives, and yet there’s artistic, political, social, cultural, commercial and scientific life going on in those places; sometimes in extraordinary interiors. They might be characterized by a magisterial dome, a set of frescoes, a period look, a carved staircase, a collection of furniture, or a set of tiles. Hidden Cape Town is about these places, many of

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