Cape Town – a Holiday to Remember
Visiting Cape Town is an ambition for many. One of the world’s truly great locations of natural beauty, it offers visitors a wealth of culture and sights.
A little history
From the 15th century onwards, South Africa and Cape Town as a location was very much ‘on the radar’ of Europeans and the area was initially colonised by the Dutch under the Dutch East India Company. There was also French influence from the arrival of the Huguenots – French Protestant refugees from the religious wars who also helped develop the now world famous Cape wine industry.
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Napoleonic wars and shifting alliances led to the area being taken by Britain from the Dutch and it remained a major part of the British Empire for around a century before eventually being incorporated into the Union of South Africa. During this period the English language and British culture were added to the existing exotic mixture and Cape Town became the increasingly culturally diverse area that it remains to this day.
The natural beauty of stone
Few people that have seen photographs of Cape Town are anything less than awe-inspired by the stunning beauty of the mountains and countryside – most notably of course Table Mountain (sometimes also called table-top mountain). This name originates from the Portuguese explorer Ant
