Rhodes Memorial
The Rhodes Memorial is a large monument in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Devil's Peak in Cape Town, South Africa, situated close to Table Mountain.Photo: Glassbottle, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Groote Schuur Hospital and Sports Centre.
Groote Schuur Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Danie van der Merwe, CC BY 2.0.
Groote Schuur Hospital is a public teaching hospital situated on the slopes of Devil's Peak in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human-to-human heart transplant took place on the 3rd December 1967, conducted by surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky. Groote Schuur Hospital is situated 1¼ km north of Rhodes Memorial.
Sports Centre
Sports venue
Photo: Axxter99, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sports Centre is a sports venue, which is situated 530 metres southeast of Rhodes Memorial.
Mostert’s Mill
Windmill
Photo: Janek Szymanowski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mostert's Mill is a historic windmill in Mowbray, Cape Town, South Africa. It was built in 1796 and is the oldest surviving complete windmill in South Africa. Mostert’s Mill is situated 670 metres east of Rhodes Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosebank and Mowbray.
Rosebank
Suburb
Photo: Rotsee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rosebank is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa, located between the suburbs of Mowbray and Rondebosch.
Mowbray
Suburb
Photo: Zaian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mowbray is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa and lies on the slopes of Devil's Peak. Mowbray is at a junction of several major Cape Town freeways and has an important multi-modal public transport interchange at Mowbray railway station.
Observatory
Suburb
Observatory is a suburb in Cape Town, South Africa, colloquially known as Obs. Bordered by Mowbray to the south and Salt River to the northwest, the area is best known as a student neighbourhood associated with the nearby University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital.
Rhodes Memorial
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: memorial to English-born, South African politician Cecil John Rhodes
- Categories: memorial, tourism, historic site, and monument
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.95235° or 33° 57′ 9″ southLongitude
18.45892° or 18° 27′ 32″ eastOpen location code
4FRW2FX5+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 26191560OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q3429602
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Thai—“Rhodes Memorial” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rhodes-gedenkteken”
- Arabic: “نصب رودس التذكاري”
- Armenian: “Ռոդսի կոթող”
- Armenian: “Ռոդսի հուշահամալիր”
- Catalan: “Memorial de Rhodes”
- Chinese: “羅德斯紀念碑”
- Dutch: “Rhodes Memorial”
- French: “Rhodes Memorial”
- German: “Rhodes Memorial”
- German: “Rhodes-Denkmal”
- Hungarian: “Rhodes-emlékmű”
- Portuguese: “Rhodes Memorial”
- Spanish: “rhodes memorial”
- Spanish: “Rhodes memorial”
- Thai: “อนุสรณ์สถานโรดส์”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include former Rhodes Memorial Tea Room and UCT Library.
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