Rhodes Memorial, Stone monument at Devil's Peak, Cape Town, South Africa

Rhodes Memorial is a Greek-temple-style monument of Cape granite on Devil's Peak, designed by Herbert Baker and completed in 1912. A staircase of 49 steps, one for each year of Cecil Rhodes's life, rises from a semicircular terrace to a U-shaped colonnade. Eight bronze lions by John Macallan Swan flank the steps, and George Frederic Watts's bronze horseman Physical Energy stands at the base.

Herbert Baker designed the memorial, built from 1906 and inaugurated on 5 July 1912, with Sir Frank Smith, mayor of Cape Town, taking part in the ceremony. The site was Rhodes's favourite viewpoint on land he left to the people of Cape Town. A planned colossus on Lion's Head, proposed by Earl Grey, was never built.

The memorial's inscription reads "To the spirit and life work of Cecil John Rhodes who loved and served South Africa." Below the bust of Rhodes are the last four lines of Rudyard Kipling's 1902 poem "Burial," written in honour of Rhodes. The site hosts an annual Easter sunrise service and is often used as a filming location.

The memorial sits within Table Mountain National Park with free entry and multiple parking spaces available. The site offers pathways of varying difficulty, and visitors should wear sturdy footwear and check weather conditions before heading up.

The bronze horseman at the foot of the steps, Physical Energy by George Frederic Watts, was originally intended for Victoria Falls in Southern Rhodesia; identical versions stand in Kensington Gardens, London, and the former copy in Lusaka is now kept at the Zimbabwe national archives. The eight bronze lions by John Macallan Swan copy those at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square.