Memorials and blue plaques in Cape Town

Memorials, monuments and cemeteries across Cape Town, South Africa — a quiet place to read about the lives held in the fabric of the city, and to visit them in person.

4 war memorials · 53 locations · 0 legacy pages

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War memorials

4

Names held in stone across the city.

Locations

53

Blue plaques, monuments and memorials.

Legacy pages

0

Lives in Cape Town honoured on a full tribute page.

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Data sources

Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.

  • Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.