Montagu

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As you approach Montagu, soaring mountains rise up in vast arches of twisted strata that display reds and ochres; in spring, the town, known for its fruit growing, is full of peach and apricot blossoms.

Montagu is certainly very pleasing, with sufficient Victorian architecture to create an historic character, and worth a night at least.


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The town was named in 1851 after John Montagu, the visionary British Secretary of the Cape, who realized that the colony would never develop without decent communications and was responsible for commissioning the first mountain passes connecting remote areas to Cape Town.

The grateful farmers of Agter Cogman's Kloof - literally: "behind Cogman's Kloof" - leapt at the chance of a snappier moniker for their village and named it after him.


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