Cape Town
A city notebook framed by mountains, the ocean and conversations about design.
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- Look towards the mountains
- Explore design spaces
- Follow the coast
Activities
Things to do around Cape Town.
Table Mountain
A flat-topped mountain overlooking Cape Town, Table Mountain rises to 1,086 m at Maclear’s Beacon.
The Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point
The Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias rounded it in 1487 and first called it the Cape of Storms.
The penguins of Boulders Beach
In Simon’s Town, on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula, a colony of critically endangered African penguins settled in 1982.
Robben Island
In Table Bay, 11 km from Cape Town, the island has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999.
The vineyards of Stellenbosch
Founded in 1679, 50 km east of Cape Town, Stellenbosch is South Africa’s second oldest town.
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