Walking heritage tours of the city
Tips and resources for you to walk and explore our beautiful city and its unique natural and cultural heritage.Walking tour resources
We have produced a number of brochures and pamphlets which you can download or read from your phone or tablet as you take yourself on a self-guided walk around the city.
Heritage Walks
Top tip
Aside from what you can discover by walking, we have an abundance of heritage sites across the city waiting to be explored. See Museums, landmarks and heritage sites for ideas about where to go.
Visual displays around the city
To view the location of all of our heritage displays around the central city, please see the two maps below:
Heritage maps
As you traverse the city, you will find carefully placed visual interpretation displays that tell you all about the site you are visiting or looking at.
Green Point Common information pamphlets
- Green Point Common
- Water to the Common
- Lion Mountain
- Sports on the Common
- A Day at the Races
- Fort Wynyard
- Guiding Lights - The Green Point Lighthouse
- A History of Public Transport in Green Point and the Atlantic Seaboard
- Gateway To Africa – Docks, Construction and Municipal Services
- Harbour to Hinterland – Water Supply and Sewage Disposal
- Green Point Services Delivered
- The Grand Vlei – Boating and Sailing
- Green Point Track
- Prisoners of War
- Greenmarket Square
- Krotoa Place
Shipwrecks
Historic Observatory posters
- Varschedrift - a contested landscape
- Battle of Varschedrift (1510)
- Historic Observatory
- Apartheid resistance and student activism
- Observa-stories
Visitor resource centres
We have visitor's centres across Cape Town with more resources, brochures and maps for those interested in discovering our city.
Mamre Visitor's Centre
Mamre is situated about an hour’s drive outside Cape Town. It was established in 1807 as one of the Moravian Mission settlements at the Cape. Prior to the establishment of the mission settlement, Mamre was a VOC outpost known as Groenekloof. Places of interest in Mamre include the Mamre School, the Long House (a stone house formerly used as a barracks by the Dutch East India Company), the Water Mill, the Old Shop and the Old Mamre Moravian Church.
Langa Visitor's Centre
You can find the visitor's centre situated in the Old Post Office, opposite the Gugu S’Theba Cultural Centre in Washington Street, Langa. Langa is the oldest formally laid out (designed) township and is one of three suburbs (also Pinelands and Maitland Garden Village) built in Cape Town as part of the Gardens City initiatives.
Prestwich Memorial
The Memorial is dedicated to the memory of Cape Town’s 18th century slaves and marginalized people, who died and were buried in the informal cemetery between Somerset Road and the historical shoreline. The Memorial is situated on the site of the 18th century Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery. See the Prestwich Memorial brochure.
Company’s Garden Visitor's Centre
Originally the home of the Manager of the Company’s Garden, the Visitor's Centre now houses the offices of the Cape Town Heritage Trust. Interpretation pamphlets and brochures are for sale. Find out more about The Company's Garden.
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