Green Point is one of the most central places you can get in Cape Town. Perched on the upper most tip of the Cape Town Atlantic Seaboard sits this popular suburb home to the Cape Town Sports Stadium which is seen in many a photograph of the city. To the right, you will find the V&A Waterfront, Two Oceans Aquarium. To it's south you will find Signal Hill which forms part of the Table Mountain chain and down south-west is Sea Point.
Green Point is a popular residential area for young professionals and for the Cape Town gay and lesbian community. It is wedged between the slopes of Signal Hill, the Atlantic Ocean and the very upmarket residential areas of Cape Town. It has been called the "Soho" of Cape Town with its trendy restaurants and busy nightlife.
Green Point is home to the Cape Town Stadium, which hosted a number of 2010 FIFA World Cup football matches. Green Point is adjacent to Cape Town’s famous Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. There is no beach in Green Point, the rocky shore below the sea wall is inaccessible, but Mouille Point has a sandy beach and a promenade that runs along the coast.
1. Green Point Park
stadium is home to Green Point Park; a little piece of paradise in the middle of the Mother City. For a fun day out, school tours, family picnics, children’s birthday parties, outdoor exercise, romantic walks and healthy activities; this is beautiful natural place to get some fresh air and be social. This carefully curated garden is composed of a rich variety of flora indigenous to the Cape, and offers the only Biodiversity Showcase Garden of its kind, featuring 25 000 indigenous plants, trees, shrubs, bulbs and groundcovers, consisting of 300 different plant species.
Go on a journey of self-exploration and get wonderfully lost in the Outdoor Labyrinth or take a paid tour with us and discover the world of fynbos. Perhaps even plan the perfect play date for young children at the Tot-Lot Play Park or take a spontaneous afternoon off to unwind.
Activities include: outdoor gym, cycling paths, walking paths, children playground, picnic spots, paid guided tours, outdoor events
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/CapeTownStadium3/Pages/greenpoint-park.aspx
2. Cape Town Stadium
Cape Town Stadium hosts some of the city’s most important moments, providing an environment that caters for everything from the arts to sports, music and milestone events. We make memories to last. We invite you to discover your own experience of the Cape Town Stadium. Join us on one of our exciting and educational tours. Visit our breathtakingly beautiful gardens and grounds or attend an international, star-quality event.
Get to the stadium via MyCiti Bus, or Uber or cycle or walk or rail - there are many options.
Before the event:
- take note of gate opening times
- Purchase tickets from authorised outlets and online merchants (tickets are not generally sold at the stadium on event days)
- Food and drinks are not permitted into the stadium but there are stores inside to buy from
- There are no cash machines or electronic banking facilities at the stadium. Bring cash.
- Always check the weather forecast and take an umbrella just in case
At the event:
- only smoke in designated areas
- pay special attention to your children and belongings at all times
- Emergency services are available at all times
- Public toilets can be found on level 00 and level 06
- there are facilities to assist disabled persons
http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/CapeTownStadium3/Pages/Stadium-Experience.aspx
3.
- This region of Cape Town is a vibey, and modern
- Less than five kilometres from beaches, Mountains, the City Centre and the V&A Waterfront. Turn around and there are magnificent mountain panoramas, natural beauty of the fynbos, the National Park, white sandy beaches, Stunning sunsets, beautiful people, modern luxury accommodation, and superb shopping influenced by Cape Town’s 2014 election as the Design Capital of the World.
- There is so much to do the less-active to the extreme sports fanatics.
- Has virgin Active Sea Point Gym
- The Blue Train Park
- Green Point Lighthouse
- Green Point Park
- Putt-putt at the beach
- Radisson Blu Hotel for cocktails
- Metropolitan Golf Club
- Hamilton Rugby Club
- Green Point Salesian Football club
- El Burro Mexican Restaurant
- The Butcher Man (Boutique butcher & restaurant)
- Hudsons Burger Joint
Green Point used to be a sandy wilderness where Cape lions roamed; the final resting place of unknown slaves and unmourned criminals, a playground for British army officers and a place of temporary exile for defeated Boer prisoners-of-war.
In the pre-colonial era, the coastal plains of the greater Peninsula area were used as seasonal grazing by the original pastoralist inhabitants of the Cape, the Khoekhoen (the now-accepted spelling for the Khoikhoi).
In 1995, the remains of four people interred in two cairn graves were discovered during excavations in Cobern Street (off Somerset Road, near Gallows Hill). They were buried in a style consistent with Late Stone Age coastal burials and associated with the Khoekhoen lifestyle, and because they were not all buried at the same time – the graves appear to have been re-used – their presence suggests there may have been other prehistoric burials in the sand dunes along the Atlantic coastline.
During the 17th and 18th centuries the coastal plain to the west of Cape Town was referred to as "de Waterplaats", or the waterfront, and by the beginning of the 19th century as "de vlakte genaamdt de Groene Punt" - "the plain named Green Point".
The area was used for grazing cattle and historical records describe the Khoekhoen using it as a camping site well into the 18th century. In the early part of the twentieth century it was still a wilderness, covered in dense shrubs and frequented by Cape lions.
Public executions occurred here from the early 18th century, with the remains of the executed being left on public display and their bones eventually buried on the eastern slopes of the hill.
According to custom, members of the Dutch Reformed Church were buried within the walled cemeteries, while un-baptised slaves and heathens were buried in the un-walled area further west.
The first (old) Somerset Hospital was built in 1818, next to the walled cemeteries. It was replaced in the mid-19th century by the new Somerset Hospital, on the eastern edge of the Common between Fort Wynyard and the Breakwater Prison. There was also a paupers' burial ground, known as "White Sands". The Common was also used during the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902.
Source: Archaeological Impact Assessment Green Point Common Erf 1059, Green Point by Mary Patrick & Harriet Clift Cape Archaeological Survey cc, May 2006.
