Historic sites

Great Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Masvingo Masvingo

Great Zimbabwe
Photo: Andrew Moore from Johannesburg, South Africa, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The stone ruins of a medieval city, the capital of a great trading kingdom from the 11th to 15th centuries, with the curving Great Enclosure and the Hill Complex, a UNESCO site.


It's near Masvingo.

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