Top 10 Oldest Small Towns in South Africa | Rebuilt to Stay Old

https://quiet-veld.page-shelf.com South Africa's ten oldest small towns, ranked strictly by founding year, from Montagu (1851) to Tulbagh (1700). For each one you get its oldest surviving building, what life there is like today and what its age costs it. Plus the story of a whole street of gabled houses that fell in one night and was rebuilt to look exactly as it did before. 0:00 Intro 1:57 No. 9 — Wupperthal 3:50 No. 8 — Philippolis 5:35 No. 7 — Griquatown 7:26 No. 6 — Graaff-Reinet 9:13 No. 5 — Swellendam 11:03 No. 4 — Simon's Town 12:52 No. 3 — Genadendal 14:36 No. 2 — Clanwilliam 16:23 No. 1 — Tulbagh 18:14 Older Than They Look South Africa Uncovered explores the country's small towns, quiet places and forgotten corners. The channel looks at mission villages, Karoo dorps and old railway towns, and at what it really takes to live there. More from the channel: quiet-veld.page-shelf.com #SouthAfrica #OldestTowns #SouthAfricanHistory #WesternCape #Tulbagh Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Montagu: Zaian — Public domain — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montagu_street.JPG Montagu: Zaian — Public domain — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Montagu_church.JPG Wupperthal: Englund WF, Njoroge L, Biström O, Miller KB, Bilton DT, Bergsten J (2020) Taxono — CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tra-Tra_River_(10.3897-zookeys.963.53470)_Figure_19.jpg Philippolis: andy carter from England — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philippolis,_Free_State_(3212509803).jpg Philippolis: Wikimedia Commons — Public domain — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:24_Tobie_Muller_-_Philippolis.jpeg Graaff-Reinet: andy carter from England — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graaff_Reinet_Caledon_Street.jpg Graaff-Reinet: South African Tourism from South Africa — CC BY 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graaff-Reinet,_Karoo,_Eastern_Cape,_South_Africa_(20484249406).jpg Simon's Town: Greg Zaal (Panorama) Rico Cilliers (Backplates) — CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Backplate_%E2%80%93_Simon%27s_Town_Harbour_IMG_0165_(Greg_Zaal_and_Rico_Cilliers_via_Poly_Haven).jpg Simon's Town: Greg Zaal (Panorama) Rico Cilliers (Backplates) — CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) — commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Backplate_%E2%80%93_Simon%27s_Town_Harbour_IMG_0133_(Greg_Zaal_and_Rico_Cilliers_via_Poly_Haven).jpg