Greenmarket Square is identified by its hand-dressed granite cobblestones and the surrounding colonial-era buildings, most notably the Old Town House. Established in sixteen ninety-six, the square began as a site for the Burgher Watch,…
Greenmarket Square and Surrounds
Walk through Cape Town's oldest public square and its adjacent commercial lanes, tracing centuries of global trade, social activism, and daily community life.
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1. Greenmarket Square
2. Iziko Old Town House Museum
The Old Town House on Greenmarket Square is identifiable by its double-storey Cape Rococo façade, a style characterized by its ornate gables and balanced, symmetrical design. Completed in seventeen sixty-one, the building originally served…
3. Central Methodist Mission
The Central Methodist Mission sits on Greenmarket Square, recognizable by its tall spire and the high-Victorian Gothic Revival architecture that marks it as one of the oldest buildings on the square. Built between eighteen seventy-six and…
4. Church Street Vintage Antiques Market
The Church Street Vintage Antiques Market occupies a pedestrian-only strip of cobblestones between Long and Burg Streets. Established in nineteen eighty-five, it stands as the oldest antique market in Cape Town. Vendors set up their stalls…
5. St Georges Mall Market (Tourism)
St Georges Mall is a long, paved pedestrian walkway running through the heart of the Cape Town city center. Once a busy road known as Berg Straat during the era of the Dutch colony, it became the city’s first pedestrianized street in…
6. St George's Cathedral
St George's Cathedral is built from sandstone quarried directly from Table Mountain, giving the cruciform structure a distinct, local texture. As the oldest cathedral in Southern Africa, this Anglican landmark on Wale Street has spent over…
7. Iziko Slave Lodge
The Iziko Slave Lodge is a building with plain, heavy walls located at the corner of Adderley and Wale Streets. Built in sixteen seventy-nine, it stands as one of the oldest structures in Cape Town and was commissioned by the Dutch East…
8. Groote Kerk Kaapstad
The Groote Kerk in Cape Town is recognizable by its distinctive steeple and its massive, neoclassical exterior sitting prominently in Church Square. This structure, completed in eighteen forty-one, incorporates the original stone tower…
9. Church Square
Church Square is a small, cobbled public space defined by a central statue of the nineteenth-century statesman Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. Flanked by the Groote Kerk on its southern side, the square occupies land that was once part of a garden…