Cape Town History Walk
Cape Town · South Africa
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Walk through Cape Town to see two churches, a Berlin Wall segment, a heritage place, and a fort. The route brings together religious buildings, a memorial, a public park setting, and a defensive structure. Pause at each stop to consider the different ways these places connect the city with history. It is a focused walk with varied landmarks rather than a general tour of Cape Town.
The walk
St. George's Cathedral
A cathedral built in stages, and remembered as the People’s Cathedral of apartheid resistance.
Berlin Wall segment
Berlin Wall segment memorial in Cape Town, South Africa
Groote Kerk
A church rebuilt in 1841, carrying Cape Town’s worship back to the first Dutch congregation.
De Waal Park
A public park born between Cape Town’s reservoirs, with a Victorian bandstand and a century of civic history.
Central Redoubt
A Cape Town fort dating from 1781, with more history left open than the record settles.
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
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How a walk works
The guide starts talking when you arrive.
This page is the map and the itinerary. The app is the guide who walks it with you.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.