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Hantam Mountain
The Hantam Mountain
(Hantamberg) in all
its beauty. You can climb the mountain alone or with your
wife and children on the easier routes. In a good
rainy season there are three waterfalls where you can
sit down and rest. The "Skoorsteenkoppie" is quite a
challenge, but worth a
try.
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Church
This Dutch Reformed Church
in Neo-Gothic style, was erected during 1899-1902. It is
a National Monument.
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The Flower Postbox
This post office box
stands in Calvinia's main street with a height of
6,17 meter, circumference of 9,43 square meter and a
volume of 7,068 cubic meter.
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Karoo Book House (Karoo
Boekehuis)
This house dates from 1855.
It was restored in 1993 especially for writers, as a
retreat and place to work. It houses a library with
literature by Karoo authors and writings about the
region. Hosts meetings of the Calvinia Reading-club.
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T-shaped House
This T-shaped early
Victorian house was built in 1855. It had two
barge board gables added in 1890 when the original
thatched roof was replaced by corrugated iron. It
has six communion rooms in the backyard.
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Calvinia Museum
Synagogue, nowadays the
Calvinia Museum. The foundation stone of this building
was laid on 14 June 1920. It was used as a synagogue
till 1968, when it was donated to the Calvinia
Municipality by die Jewish Board of Executives, for use
as museum.
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Calvinia Museum
This beautiful and
elegant old building,
a former boarding house called Nesta, is nowadays
part of the Calvinia Museum.
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Noordwester Publishers
This property has a very
well preserved courtyard with communion rooms. It was
used through the decades as house, shop or workshop for
several people, mostly Jews. The premises is at
present being utilised as a printshop and offices for
the town's weekly newspaper since 1917, thus the Noordwester.
During restoration remnants of stables and an old well
were found in the courtyard.
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Steam
Locomotive
A Class 24 steam
locomotive
that was used on the Hutchinson-Calvinia line. Now
part of the Calvinia Museum.
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Tuishuis
This
house was built in 1870. It displays typical Karoo
rustication. Since restoration, it is being used as a
guest house by its owners.
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Russian Victorian House
This Victorian house was
built in 1897 by two Russian builders for a Russian
Jew. Building material was brought from Ceres by
horse wagon at a cost of one pound (sterling) per
one hundred pounds freight.
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Transport wagon
This transport wagon was used until late 20th century for transport
from Klawer, the railway station nearest to Calvinia.
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Victorian style Guest House
This Victorian home with bargeboard
gables dates back
to 1850. It was burnt down
during the Anglo-Boer War, was rebuilt en later
restored. Nowadays it is in use as a guest house.
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Hantam
House
(Die Hantamhuis)
This lovely old house is a museum
in its own right, with all
kinds of confectionaries to enjoy and cute things to
look at.
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Wealth of flowers
It is a rare year that
Calvinia cannot show off with scenes like this near
Toren. Even
the Namakwaland's flowers cannot show up against
Calvinia's
wealth of flowers in a good year.
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