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Table Mountain Aerial Cableway
Cable car with a rotating cabin that ascends Table Mountain, the flat‑topped mountain that dominates Cape Town, to viewpoints over a thousand metres up.
Cabo Ocidental · South Africa Capital
Cidade do Cabo
In the destination Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula.
In the photo: Bo-Kaap, Cidade do Cabo
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The city
What to expect from Cidade do Cabo.
Capital of the Western Cape and seat of the South African Parliament, Cape Town sits between Table Mountain and Table Bay. The cable car climbs the mountain; below are the Castle of Good Hope (1679), the Company's Garden, the colorful Bo-Kaap, the District Six Museum and the V&A Waterfront harbor, with the Zeitz MOCAA and the boat to Robben Island. Kirstenbosch, Camps Bay, Chapman's Peak Drive and Groot Constantia are less than an hour from the center.
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The local experience
What to see in Cidade do Cabo
Mountain
Lion's Head
Peak of about 669 metres beside Table Mountain, with a spiral trail to the summit and views over the city, Camps Bay and the Atlantic.
Port
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Working harbour transformed into a leisure district, with quays, a clock tower, aquarium, museums and the departure point for boats to Robben Island.
Museum
Zeitz MOCAA
Museum of contemporary African art housed in a 1920s grain silo at the V&A Waterfront, with an atrium carved out of the former concrete tubes.
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Historic site
Robben Island Museum
Prison island in Table Bay where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years; a World Heritage Site, visited with guides who were imprisoned there.
Historic district
Bo-Kaap
A neighborhood of cobbled streets and houses painted in bright colors on the slope of Signal Hill, birthplace of Cape Malay community.
Fortress
Castle of Good Hope
A five-pointed fort built by the Dutch between 1666 and 1679, the oldest building in South Africa, with a military museum and an art collection.
Park
Company's Garden
The former Dutch East India Company vegetable garden from 1652 became the city’s central park, surrounded by Parliament, museums and the National Gallery.
Museum
District Six Museum
Museum in a former Methodist church that tells the story of the forced removal of more than 60,000 residents from the District Six neighbourhood during apartheid.
Botanical garden
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Botanical garden from 1913 on the eastern slope of Table Mountain, dedicated to native plants, with proteas, a suspended walkway and trails up the mountain.
Scenic road
Chapman's Peak Drive
About a 9 km road cut into the cliff between Hout Bay and Noordhoek, with curves over the Atlantic and viewpoints along the way.
Beach
Camps Bay Beach
White-sand beach on the Atlantic side, beneath the cliffs of the Twelve Apostles, with a promenade of restaurants and cold water.
Historic farm
Groot Constantia
The oldest wine farm in South Africa, founded in 1685, with a Cape Dutch manor house converted into a museum.