Castle of Good Hope

Castle of Good Hope

Year

1666

Type

building

Five pointed bastions of dark Robben Island slate and Table Mountain sandstone form the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, begun in 1666 and completed thirteen years later to replace Jan van Riebeeck's original wooden fort. …

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