Groot Constantia
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Groot Constantia is the oldest wine estate in South Africa and provincial heritage site in the suburb of Constantia in Cape Town, South Africa.
Groot Constantia manor house, a historic Cape Dutch building
Cloete Cellar building, the original wine cellar at the estate. The pediment gable is by the sculptor Anton Anreith.
Groot Constantia Estate
Outbuildings at Groot Constantia, now housing the Jonkershuis Restaurant
Simon van der Stel
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Simon van der Stel was the first Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony, the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. He was interested in botany, establishing vineyards Groot and Klein Constantia, and produci
Groot Constantia
…large) in English. In 1685, during an annual visit to the Cape, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Drakenstein granted the grounds of Groot Constantia to Simon van der Stel the VOC Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Van der Stel built the house and used the land to produce wine as well as other fruit and vegetables, and…
Portrait of Van der Stel by Pieter van Anraedt
Namaqualand
De Vlieger The Fisherman (unfinished)