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Harare City Centre: Jacaranda Avenues & Colonial Heritage

Walk Harare's broad tree-lined avenues past colonial architecture, the National Gallery, and vibrant African Unity Square in Zimbabwe's leafy capital

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African Unity Square
The city's central park and gardens where political meetings, flower markets and lunchtime office workers meet under mature native trees
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Harare City Hall
A grand neoclassical building from 1933 that anchors the city center, fronted by a square with fountains and flanked by jacaranda trees in November bloom
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National Gallery of Zimbabwe
One of Africa's finest spaces for contemporary art with outstanding Shona stone sculptures and rotating exhibitions of Zimbabwean painting and photography
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Harare Gardens
A large public park with a small zoo, rose garden and weekend cultural events where Harare families picnic under sprawling msasa trees
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Cecil Square Clock Tower
The colonial-era square named after Cecil Rhodes, now renamed Africa Unity Square, where vendors sell carved wooden souvenirs and fresh flowers
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First Street Pedestrian Mall
Harare's main shopping street is transformed into a pedestrian street, teeming with traders, street food vendors and informal street life