Renaissance, Mirror Effects, and Canals in Stellenbosch!

Today we walked around the town of Stellenbosch and the university campus. One of the campus buildings we visited was the University's School of Theology, a beautiful structure influenced by renaissance era architecture. Other buildings we visited were white gothic structures with simple, clean lines and looked symmetrical on a vertical axis- you can split it down the center and left mirrors right! 

                     Stellenbosch School of Theology                  Moederkerk (Mother Church)

An interesting and quirky design feature of the town: there are narrow, deep channels along the sides of many streets that look like open storm water drains. Only they are not! They are canals historically meant to provide water to be used by individual residences to irrigate personal vegetable gardens. Apparently, the canal system also had small sluice gates so that individual water allocations can be managed equitably. So, on just one walking tour, we sampled renaissance architecture, mirror effects, and a canal system!

Street Canal System

Brissa A

07/12/2022