Cape Town Stadium

Green Point & ­Waterfront

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Shaped like a giant traditional African hat and wrapped with a Teflon-mesh membrane designed to catch and reflect natural light, this R4.5-billion stadium, built for the 2010 World Cup, is Cape Town’s most striking piece of contemporary architecture. The hour-long tours will take you behind the scenes into the VIP and press boxes and the teams’ dressing rooms.

The 55,000-capacity stadium is home ground for the soccer team Ajax Cape Town, and has been used for big pop concerts by the likes of Coldplay and U2, as well as a memorial service for Nelson Mandela.

Across from the new stadium, a section of the old Green Point Stadium forms the viewing platform for a running and cycling track.

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    Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

    5.93 MILES

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  • Table Mountain Aerial Cableway in Cape Town

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    3.77 MILES

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  • Prison Barrack on Robben Island

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    7.17 MILES

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    20.34 MILES

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    1.8 MILES

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    8.7 MILES

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  • Silvermine Reservoir.

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    12.92 MILES

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  • Landscape of Meerendal Wine Estate.

    Meerendal

    14.39 MILES

    Although it was established in 1702 and has some of South Africa's oldest pinotage and shiraz vineyards, as well as a handsome Cape Dutch homestead,…

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Nearby Green Point & ­Waterfront attractions

1. Cape Medical Museum

0.3 MILES

The 'Disease and History' exhibit at this quirky museum details in length (with some gruesome photographs) the history of major diseases in the Cape, from…

2. Mouille Point Lighthouse

0.33 MILES

The remains of Mouille Point Lighthouse, built around 1842 and last operated in 1908, are found in the grounds of the Cape Town Hotel School.

3. Breakwater Prison

0.34 MILES

Today it's Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, but in the past this complex housed thousands of prisoners whose hard labour helped build the V&A…

4. The Springbok Experience

0.45 MILES

You don't have to be rugby crazy to enjoy this attraction, which celebrates the history of rugby in South Africa and, in particular, the trials and…

5. Two Oceans Aquarium

0.48 MILES

This excellent aquarium features denizens of the deep from the cold and the warm oceans that border the Cape Peninsula. It's a chance to see penguins,…

6. Time Ball Tower

0.48 MILES

Built in 1894, this was once used to signal the time to ships in the bay; when the big red ball on the roof was lowered down a metal spike, ship's masters…

7. Robinson Dry Dock

0.5 MILES

One of the Waterfront's most fascinating sights is this large dry dock, opened in 1882 and still used to repair ships today. Named after Governor Sir…

8. Cape Wheel

0.51 MILES

What was supposed to be a temporary attraction at the Waterfront has proved so popular that it's been made a permanent fixture. Your ticket gives you four…