Pretoria - Union Buildings

The Union Buildings (by Sir Herbert Baker, 1913), set in beautiful gardens, are commandingly situated on Meintjieskop Hill on the east side of the city. This impressive range of sandstone buildings is the seat of government and of Parliament (though in the first half of the year Parliament sits in Cape Town). Here too are housed the state archives.

In the gardens which slope down in terraces to Church Street are the Delville Wood Memorial, commemorating the South African soldiers who fell in the First World War, statues of the South African prime ministers Louis Botha, J. B. M. Hertzog and J. C. Smuts, and a Police Memorial.