Cape Town, Company's Gardens

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Stretching from the South African Library to the South African Museum, the Company's Gardens were the initial raison d'etre for the Dutch settlement at the Cape.


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Established in 1652 to supply fresh greens to Dutch East India Company ships travelling between the Netherlands and the East, the gardens were initially worked by imported slave labour.


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At the end of the seventeenth century, the gardens were turned over to botanical horticulture for Cape Town's growing colonial elite.

Ponds, lawns, landscaping and a crisscross web of oak-shaded walkways were introduced.

Today the gardens are full of local plants, the result of long-standing European interest in Cape botany, and are a pleasant place to meander, featuring a pleasantly shady outdoor café.


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