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This is a unique oportunity to rent a luxury self catering
apartment in the heart of Green Point, one of Cape Town's
most upbeat and hip areas. For a limited time only, a newly
built apartment is on the market for sale or rent. Rent it,
and if you love Cape Town, and De Waterkant, buy it! These
exclusive modern apartments have all the facilities you could
wish for, and are the height of luxury, nestled in the centre
of Cape Town's most stylish and hospitable area. To buy or
rent one of these town house apartments, enquire on this site.
Although De Waterkant Village is not really a typical gay
area, the Cape gay scene rediscovered the area about ten years
ago and turned De Waterkant from a poor suburb into one of
the most trendy and colourful areas of Cape Town.
Purple, green, red, yellow, sky-blue and baby pink are some
of the bright colours of the small 'town cottages' in the
streets of the oldest and nowadays one of the trendiest and
well developed parts of Cape Town, De Waterkant Village. At
lunchtime, The Village Café terrace is crowded with
locals, business people and tourists feasting on chef Russel's
specialty, a Malay Curry with a good glass of white wine.
During the day it's quiet in the rainbow village, but at
lunchtime or the perfect moment for a sundowner, the terraces
are magically filled. The locals hang out at Manhattans' for
a nice cocktail, at La Petite Tarte for the smallest self-made
French pies of Cape Town and at Dutch for a double 'uitsmijter'
(2 fried eggs on bread), surrounded in an orange décor
of tulips, bicycles and anything else that brand marks Dutch
glory. Stop by Gugu's for a fruity shake and healthy homemade
ciabattas and at The Nose Bar for the best wines from Cape
Town's world famous estates. Locals meet on their 'stoepies'
in front of their houses for a daily chat, and for an exuberant
night, gay people go out to the club 55, The Bronx and Chilly
and Lime.
The twenty hilly streets of 'De Waterkant' lie between the
Cape mountain top of Signal Hill and the business area of
the city bowl. This magical area forms a small but highly
fashionable village in itself in the heart of the city of
Cape Town. That's also why the trendy cafés, bars and
restaurants, guest houses, antique shops, fashionable furniture
shops, commercial companies and artists are doing their business
here nowadays, when for almost two centuries this land was
known as a 'no go area' and in the beginning it was used as
a graveyard for slaves and the poorest citizens from town.
De Waterkant area has an interesting history known by just
a few insiders. The first inhabitants were Scottish soldiers
and not Malaysian slaves as often told in historical documents.
The British defenders built the small houses with typical
Dutch sliding windows and wooden shutters around 1800, when
the English settled here permanently. The house fronts and
'stoepies' in front of the homes are Malaysian ingredients,
copied from the Islamic coloured Bo-Kaap area that borders
on De Waterkant. The symmetry in the construction of the houses
is Gregorian style of British origin
The mosque, the Catholic chapel and the Calvinistic and Lutheran
church are the four international cornerstones of De Waterkant
Village. Even the different colours between the cobblestones
in the streets have got their own story. While the Dutch took
their black coloured boulders, the British used Signal Hill's
massive stones to cover the streets.
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