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Graaff-Reinet Travel guide
Graaff-Reinet : Michelin's recommendations
Nestled at the foot of the Sneeuberg, at a bend in the Sundays River, Graaff-Reinet is like an oasis of vegetation. This farming town and capital of the Karoo developed thanks to the region’s merino sheep farming. It took on the name “Little Athens” due to its large number of preserved and restored historic monuments, which lend it a great deal of charm. The surrounding Camdeboo Nature Reserve, and particularly the Valley of Desolation, is worth an excursion.
Tourist attractions Graaff-Reinet : Things to see and do
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Graaff-Reinet Dutch Reformed Church
Church Street ZA - Graaff-Reinet
This Gothic Victorian church boasts a pulpit and great organ that are well worth seeing. The treasure, kept in the sacristy, contains a set of silver goblets. The 46m-high steeple towers above the town.
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Lex Bremner Galerie
Church Street ZA - Graaff-Reinet
The collection includes the skull of the proto-reptile Aulacephalodon baini, over 200 million years old, as well as a coelacanth, a large fossil fish thought to be extinct, a specimen of which was found in the Indian Ocean in 1938. The Lex Bremner ..
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The Drostdy
30 Church Street 30 ZA - Graaff-Reinet
The home of the magistrate-governor, with its pediment bearing the arms of George III, was restored in 1975 after the original plans drawn by Louis-Michel Thibault , who also designed Reinet House. It is now a hotel. The rooms are in the old freed s..
