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Simon’s Town is at the end of the rail line going South from Cape Town and is a naval town named after the governor of the Cape Colony, Simon van der Stel upon whose recommendation the Bay was used by the Dutch East India Company for winter anchorage. The "Historic Mile" with twenty one of the buildings in St Georges street being over 150 years old is a popular walk.
The Simon’s Town Museum is housed in ‘The Residency’ and offers regular walking tours of the town centre. The Heritage Museum tells the story of the Muslim residents of Simon’s Town and their forced removal under the apartheid regime. The South African Naval Museum houses a submarine diorama and is the custodian of the Martello Tower and for children is the Warrior Toy Museum.
Other historic sites include the Church of St Francis and the Roman Rock Lighthouse. Jackass penguins can be viewed from Seaforth or Boulders Beach just beyond the town. The larger part of the colony is at Foxy Beach is reached by a path along the shoreline and a boardwalk onto the beach.
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