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Cape Town has been named the second-best city in the world and the best city in Africa by readers of US-based travel resource Condé Nast Traveler. The 25th annual Readers’ Choice Awards were recently announced by Condé Nast, after close to 50 000 readers took part in the survey. Cape Town scored 84.8, and was only beaten by the popular southern US city of Charleston.
The other cities in the top 10 included Florence, Bangkok, Vancouver, Sydney, Beirut, St Miguel de Allende, Buenos Aires and Gustavia.
Readers gave Cape Town 92.3 for ambience, 89.3 for lodging, 86.7 for culture and sites, 86.6 for friendliness, 86.0 for restaurants and 69.2 for shopping. Meanwhile, Cape Town topped the list in Africa, followed by Knysna and Marrakech in Morocco.
Cape Town has also received numerous other accolades, including Best Destination in Africa at the World Travel Awards 2011, Best Destination in the World at the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2011, the World’s Top City in Africa and the Middle East at the Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards 2012, Fourth Top City in the World at the Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards 2012, 23rd in the Top 25 Destinations in the World at the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2012, 8th in the Top 10 Beach Destinations in Africa at the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2012, Best Beach Destination in Africa at the World Travel Awards 2012 and One of the World’s Ten Most Loved Cities 2012 from CNNgo.
Table Mountain was also named a New7Wonder of Nature, and Cape Town was named World Design Capital 2014.
