# Great War Memorial Cross

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/cape-town/spot/great-war-memorial-cross/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

This page is about one place: Great War Memorial Cross, a spot in Cape Town with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.

- City: [Cape Town](https://mytuur.com/en/city/cape-town/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GreatWarMemorialCross_672e61de3b5f521d3642e4f9_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Baines-The_greatest_hunt_in_history_near_Bloemfontein_1860-0627.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GreatWarMemorialCross_672e61de3b5f521d3642e4f9_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F._Benda-The_planting_of_cross_by_Bartholomew_Dias_in_1488-0681.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_GreatWarMemorialCross_672e61de3b5f521d3642e4f9_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederick_Timpson_I'Ons-Canteen_scene_painted_during_the_frontier_wars-0687.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Cape Town. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.