Kasteel de Goede Hoop

Castle of Good Hope

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Architectural postcard illustration of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, South Africa
An architectural postcard from the Living Atlas.

A 17th-century Dutch East India Company fort, the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, completed in 1679.

Why Atlas chose this place

A star fort in ochre and white beneath Table Mountain — Cape Town's oldest walls, drawn in geometry and gables.

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