Castle and preparation for work as a tour guide.
Castle and preparation for work as a guide
The new year began and I had to prepare in practice to become a real guide. I could not officially get a job in some travel company, the competition was too high. I hoped that the Rada, which during these years had already become a professional guide, would help me with my work. But in order to do this, it was necessary to get acquainted with the city and its surroundings. Despite her busyness - two children, Charlotte is only three months old, breastfeeding, Rada and I tried our best and she opened to me the real world of tourism in Cape Town. Thus, we visited the castle about which I will tell you now:
The Castle of Good Hope on the Dutch Kasteel de Goede Hoop, or simply the castle as the Cape Towns call it, is a 17th-century bastion fort. Initially, the castle was built right on the banks of Stolovaya Bay from clay and wood by Commander Jan van Riebeck immediately upon his arrival at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. The story goes that for the construction of the castle, a whole forest of unique yellow trees was cut down in the forests that covered the slopes of the current Hot Bay village!
In 1664, tensions between Britain and the Netherlands intensified amid rumours of war. In the same year, Commander Zacharias Wagenaar, the successor of Jan van Riebeck, was ordered to build a pentagonal fortress of stone on the site of the old fort. The first stone was laid on January 2, 1666.
Built by settlers between 1666 and 1679, the castle is the oldest existing building in South Africa. Work on the construction of the fort was often interrupted due to the fact that the Dutch East India Company did not want to spend money on the project.
On April 26, 1679, the inauguration of the Castle took place. Five bastions were named after the major titles of William III of Orange-Nassau: Leerdam in the west, with Buren, Katzenellenbogen, Nassau and Orange clockwise.
At first, the fortress housed the settlers who had arrived to arrange a dock for ships, who could sleep peacefully at night, without fear of attacks by the local population.
One of the remarkable examples of the care of the superiors for their subordinates was the construction of a huge pool inside the fort, which was necessary due to the hot weather in summer.
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