Due to popular demand, we are now offering the walking tour exploring Muizenberg’s architectural heritage on both Sunday 22 September at 10 and Saturday 28 September at 10. Both tours start at Rhodes Cottage.

The tour starts with two seminal buildings – Rust en Vrede (designed for Cecil John Rhodes) and Watersgate (designed for John Garlick, and now called Graceland). These two buildings would come to influence the architecture of Muizenberg, in structures that were grand and modest, in profound ways. Although the tour’s focus will be on Cape Mediterranean architecture, along the way we will pause to admire observation posts and homes in the Cape vernacular, Victorian curiosities, Edwardian libraries and railway stations, Art Deco cinemas and hotels, and a fine example of the heroic age of Modernism.

For more information and to book mail muizenberg.heritage@gmail.com