# Company’s Garden in Cape Town — Citylit

A leafy historic garden with shaded paths, monuments and museums around its edges.

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## Company’s Garden

A leafy historic garden with shaded paths, monuments and museums around its edges.

- City: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Category: Parks & zoos
- Address: Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town City Centre
- Citylit page: https://citylit.vercel.app/cape-town/parks-zoos/company-s-garden
- Official website: https://www.capetown.travel/
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%27s_Garden
- Sources checked: 2026-10-08
- Coordinates: longitude 18.4241, latitude -33.9249 (CITY REFERENCE ONLY; venue coordinates unknown)
- Coordinate source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape\_Town

The Company's Garden is a large public park situated in Cape Town CBD - the main commercial district of Cape Town. It is the oldest garden in South Africa, and a national heritage site.
The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain.

About source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%27s_Garden; checked 2026-10-12; license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

### Practical facts
- admission: free (verified); checked 2026-10-08; source: https://www.capetowngreenmap.co.za/cape-town-green-map-online-map/nature/garden/the-company-s-garden-2
- booking: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- stepFreeEntrance: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- accessibleToilets: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- parking: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- publicTransport: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- family: Unknown / unconfirmed (unknown)
- environment: outdoor (editorial-estimate); checked 2026-10-08; source: https://www.capetown.travel/
- durationMinutes: 60 (editorial-estimate); checked 2026-10-08; source: Citylit editorial planning estimate

### Sources
- Cape Town Tourism: https://www.capetown.travel/; fetched 2026-10-08; retrieved during research
- Company's Garden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%27s_Garden; fetched 2026-10-07; retrieved during research

### Photographs and credits
- https://citylit.vercel.app/images/ed3865ef5aac.jpg — Company's Garden Cape Town, looking onto Table Mountain. Venue photograph. Author: LKD2018; license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Company%27s_Garden_Cape_Town.jpg
- https://citylit.vercel.app/images/e372b70f0bac.jpg — Cecil Rhodes memorial statue (Herbert Baker, 1908) in the Company’s Garden, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Venue photograph. Author: Dietmar Rabich; license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Town_(ZA),_Company%27s_Garden,_Cecil_Rhodes_statue_--_2024_--_3471.jpg
- https://citylit.vercel.app/images/77c0e812366c.jpg — Delville Wood Memorial (Sir Herbert Baker (architect), Alfred Turner (sculptor), before 1939) in the Company’s Garden, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. Venue photograph. Author: Dietmar Rabich; license: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cape_Town_(ZA),_Company%27s_Garden,_Delville_Wood_Memorial_--_2024_--_3451.jpg

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