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Prinshof, Pretoria — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Prinshof is the medical quarter of Pretoria, holding the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Health Sciences and the Steve Biko Hospital.
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Where to stay in Prinshof
Not every neighbourhood fits every trip — here's what each one is good for.
PretoriaSouth Africathe core of Pretoria with the Steve Biko Hospital an easy run outPretoria Central
Pretoria Central is the core of the city and holds the rooms that Prinshof's hospital and faculty blocks do not.Pretoria Central →
PretoriaSouth Africaresidential streets for a visitor attending the Steve Biko HospitalArcadia
Arcadia stands in Pretoria's suburb register alongside Prinshof, offering ordinary streets rather than the ward blocks of the Faculty of Health Sciences.Arcadia →About Prinshof
What are the main landmarks in Prinshof?
Only one memorial is listed. The J.C. Smuts Memorial stands within Prinshof, the single marked structure the record enters against a district otherwise given over to the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Health Sciences and the Steve Biko Hospital.
Teaching wards fill the rest. Pretoria's other monuments lie outside these blocks, in the Gauteng city around them.
What is the history of Prinshof?
No charter attaches to Prinshof. The district takes its dates from the institutions planted in it, the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Health Sciences and the Steve Biko Hospital, rather than from any settlement year of its own. Pretoria carries the older record. South Africa's registers list Prinshof among the Gauteng city's areas, a name fixed by what was built there rather than by when the ground was first taken.
Where is Prinshof?
Prinshof occupies a stretch of Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa, where the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Steve Biko Hospital take up most of the ground.
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What is the best area to stay in Prinshof?
Pretoria Central: the core of Pretoria with the Steve Biko Hospital an easy run out. Arcadia: residential streets for a visitor attending the Steve Biko Hospital.
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Updated September 2026