In addition to the Zimbabwe African wildlife is still known for its distinctive and ancient culture. Great Zimbabwe, is believed to have been the main shrine and religious center ancestors Shona (Bantu people). The city was founded approx. 1130 n. e. and it has existed for two or three centuries. In ancient times it was the center of the state Monomotapa, also known as the Great Power (more) Zimbabwe Muene Mutapa or Munhumutapa. At one time it was believed that it was here were the famous King Solomon's mines. Throughout the country, numerous monuments of this ancient civilization.

The monument, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 and is located 28 km south of Masvingo, known for its magnificence since the XVI century, when, thanks to the Portuguese travelers of its existence became known outside the African continent. Spread over an area of ​​720 hectares, a monument of antiquity is strikingly majestic architecture of ancient stones and is usually divided into three architectural complex. The complex of the hill, or the castle on the hill, is a series of stone walls, forming an ellipse and towering 80-meter boulder.

Great Wall - the massive construction circle approximately 255 m, 10 m wide and in some places up to 5 m. The complex valley - the ruins, located between the first two complexes, which was discovered engraving Birds Zimbabwe later became a symbol of the country.

These walls are the main remains of a large city, the population in the XIII-XV centuries, the population of which, according to some estimates, was about 20,000 people. The city's population lived in thatched huts, built on the basis of Dagi (a mixture of clay and gravel), and the rulers and the nobility lived in the buildings of stone walls.