Heritage Square

This guide to Heritage Square in Cape Town centers on a single vine of Crouchen Blanc growing in the courtyard since around 1781, reputedly the oldest fruit-bearing grapevine in South Africa. You'll hear why ships carried this hardy French varietal south in the first place, and how the block of Cape Dutch and Georgian townhouses around it survived a threatened parking garage in the 1980s. Look for Attwell's Bakery's old chimney stacks still marking the roofline above the courtyard.