Trafalgar Park

Cape Town


This park, which is slated for redevelopment by the city and has a good public swimming pool (closed at the time of research), contains the remains of the French Redoubt, one of a series of defensive positions built by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1871 to protect the Cape against a British attack.


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