Cape TownSights

Stadium sights in Cape Town

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    Green Point Stadium

    Shaped like a wavy cloud and wrapped with a glass-fibre membrane designed to catch and reflect natural light, the 68, 000 seat, 258m-tall Green Point Stadium is Cape Town’s most striking piece of contemporary architecture. Find out more about the new stadium and South African soccer at the adjacent ­ Visitors Centre built in the one-time presidential suite of the old stadium – the only part of it still standing. One-hour tours include a visit into the construction zone (and eventually finished stadium) as well as a photographic and model exhibition and the one-man play The Greensman, an energetic performance aimed mainly at kids that explains the history of Green Poi…

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