Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town
Friday, 4 May 2018 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Africa / Afrika General
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The Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in
Cape Town is situated on the
Atlantic shore ,
Table Bay Harbour , the City of Cape Town and
Table Mountain . Adrian van der Vyver designed the complex. The Waterfront attracts more than 23 million visitors a year. Situated in South Africa’s oldest working harbour, the 123 hectares (300 acres) area has been developed for mixed-use, with both residential and commercial real estate. Features in the
waterfront are
Chavonnes Battery ,
Nelson Mandela Gateway to
Robben Island ,
Nobel Square (with sculptures of the four South African
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Albert John Lutuli ,
Desmond Tutu ,
Frederik Willem de Klerk , and
Nelson Mandela ),
Two Oceans Aquarium ,
Breakwater Lodge (
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business ).
Prince Alfred , second son of Queen Victoria , visited the Cape Colony harbour in 1860 as a sixteen year-old Royal Navy Midshipman on HMS Euryalus. He made a big splash with the colonials on this first-ever visit by a member of the Royal Family . The first basin of the new Navy Yard was named after him and the second after his mother.
Victoria Basin at the Victoria & Albert Waterfront © flickr.com - Damien du Toit/cc-by-2.0
The complex houses over 450 retail outlets, including fashion, homeware and curios, to jewellery, leather goods and audio-visual equipment. The V&A Waterfront is also still a working harbour and fishing boats bring in fresh fish, and larger container ships are towed in by tugboats.
The Waterfront has recently seen development in its new Silo district, which currently houses the new headquarters of
Allan Gray Investment Management at Silo 1 and apartments at Silo 2. The project is expected to be completed in 2017 with the
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa , a Virgin Active gym and a hotel in the works.
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