Company's Gardens

Originally designed by the Dutch in 1652 as a supply garden, the gardens now include tree-lined paths, a rose garden and a restaurant. Also here are St George's Cathedral, once a potent anti-apartheid symbol, and the Houses of Parliament, where Nelson Mandela first appeared as president of the new South Africa in 1994. Visitors come to take a stroll, enjoy its many monuments and search for the oldest cultivated pear tree in South Africa.