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Type
  
Botanical

Phone
  
+27 21 426 1357

Operated by
  
City of Cape Town

Company's Garden

Location
  
Cape Town, South Africa

Address
  
19 Queen Victoria St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

Hours
  
Open today · 7AM–7PMSaturday7AM–7PMSunday7AM–7PMMonday7AM–7PMTuesday7AM–7PMWednesday7AM–7PMThursday7AM–7PMFriday7AM–7PM

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Castle of Good Hope, Bo‑Kaap, District Six Museum, Signal Hill, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

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The Company's Garden is a park and heritage site located in central Cape Town. The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain.

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Features in the park

  • The oldest cultivated pear tree in South Africa (circa 1652)
  • A rose garden designed and built in 1929
  • A well stocked fish pond
  • Dellville Wood Memorial Garden, which commemorates the World War I Battle of Delville Wood in France, in which a predominantly South African force of more than 3,000 soldiers was reduced to 755 survivors by German forces
  • An aviary
  • Restaurant – The Company's Garden Restaurant
  • Botanically and historically valuable trees
  • Local arts and crafts along the avenue
  • Lawns and benches
  • A herb and succulent garden
  • Historic statues
  • Iziko South African Museum and Iziko National Gallery

    • Nearby places of interest

  • Parliament & Tuynhuys are adjacent to the park
  • National Library of South Africa
  • St George's Cathedral
  • Slave Lodge
  • Centre for the Book
  • Gardens Shul, South African Jewish Museum
  • Cape Town Holocaust Centre
  • Hiddingh Campus, University of Cape Town
  • Mount Nelson Hotel

    • Events

  • The Company's Garden hosts the annual Cape Town Festival.
  • Cape Peninsula University of Technology usually has the annual walking/city tour that concludes at the Garden.

    • References

    Company's Garden Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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