The Mother City of South Africa, cupped between the sea and the sheer wall of Table Mountain, and one of the most beautiful cities on earth. It began as a Dutch East India Company refreshment station in sixteen fifty-two and grew into a layered port town: the oak-lined Company's Garden and the star-shaped Castle of Good Hope at its heart, the painted lanes of the Bo-Kaap climbing Signal Hill, and a working harbour that still looks out to Robben Island. Read the old city and the waterfront at your own pace, beneath the mountain.