Monument
Rhodes Memorial
Greek-style granite temple on a mountain shoulder, guarded by bronze lions above a windswept former savanna.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town opens with a runner fleeing a wildfire below Devil's Peak, then rewinds to why Cecil Rhodes chose this shoulder of the mountain for his Greek-style temple, guarded by bronze lions and the bronze horseman Physical Energy below the steps. It traces the empty paddock behind the memorial, once home to eland, wildebeest and zebra kept as a living replica of the plains Rhodes dreamed of conquering, and asks why the animals disappeared years earlier. Listen for what that grassland had already lost before flames ever reached it.
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