Its streets planted with big oaks, its white houses with heavy wooden doors, its wrought gables, its three hundred year old vineyards, its hotels like museums and its restaurants with coffered ceilings... It all began on November 6, 1679, when Governor Simon van der Stel discovered an enchanting valley some 48 km from Cape Town. A gentle river meanders through the greasy grass on a mountainous background. An ideal setting and climate to develop agriculture. In 1682, a representative of the colony officially settled in Stellenbosch, near the Eerste River. The city of the pioneers occupies a special place in the collective memory of white South Africans. It is said to be the proof that everything started well, a model of elegance and refinement, a way of redeeming itself before history, which would later make a face. Today, Stellenbosch is one of South Africa's leading university towns. More than 20,000 students attend classes here, which are taught mainly in Afrikaans. Don't look for the street names at ground level, as they are written on the sidewalks. The city is pleasant, a bit like an open-air gallery with works of art, especially sculptures, lining the streets. Art punctuates the walks in the city center. Often steel sculptures: dancers or horses with their manes in the wind. Then we stop in pretty shaded courtyards where the terraces of cafés and some stores are intermingled.

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