Castle
Castle of Good Hope
Pentagon fortress built by enslaved labourers, with a working bakery and blacksmith's forge inside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town opens with the fortress's construction beginning in 1666 under Commissioner Isbrand Goske, and the enslaved people and labourers brought from Madagascar, Mozambique, the Indies and India who cut the stone and raised its walls. You'll hear about the working town inside its ramparts, a bakery, forge and carpentry shop, and the bell added to its tower in 1684. It considers what the fortress's hopeful name meant to the people who built it.
This audio guide was created using AI.