 Map showing Long Street and the surrounding area. | |
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| Location | Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Coordinates | 33°55′18″S18°25′12″E / 33.92167°S 18.42000°E /-33.92167; 18.42000 |
Long Street is a majorstreet located in theCity Bowl section ofCape Town,South Africa. It is famous as abohemian hang out and the street is lined with manybook stores, various ethnic restaurants and bars. Restaurants include African restaurants such as Zula, and Indian restaurants such as Masala Dosa. Long Street exhibits a diversified culture and attracts tourists from all over the world. It also has a number of youth hostels which provide accommodation to an international roster of guests. Several theatres which showedanti-apartheid plays were located on the street during the 1970s and 1980s, although most have now closed and been replaced byrestaurants or stores.
Architecturally, it is noted for itsVictorian buildings withwrought iron balconies. These were featured in an article in an edition of the annual publicationThe Saturday Book.[1]
Traffic on Long Street isone-way in the uphill (southwest) direction, while the parallel Loop Street carries downhill traffic. The number 101MyCiTi bus runs the length of Long Street on its way from theCivic Centre toGardens, with five stops along the street.
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