In addition to African wildlife Zimbabwe is still famous for its distinctive and ancient culture. Great Zimbabwe is believed to be the main Shrine and cult centre of the ancestors of Sean (the people of the Bantu group). The city was founded CA. 1130 B. C. and existed for two or three centuries. In ancient times it was the centre of the state of Monomotapa, also known as the power of the Great (Big), Zimbabwe Mwene Mutapa or Monomotapa. At one time it was believed that here was the famous king Solomon's mines. The country has preserved many monuments of this ancient civilization.

The monument, inscribed on the world Heritage list by UNESCO in 1986 and located 28 km South of Masvingo, known for its splendor since the sixteenth century, when Portuguese travelers about its existence became known outside the African continent. Spread over an area of 720 acres, the monument is a strikingly majestic architecture of ancient stones and is usually divided into three architectural complex. The complex of a hill or fortress on a hill, is a series of stone walls that form an ellipse and towering 80-metre-high boulder.

Great wall - a massive structure with a circumference of about 255 m, height 10 m and in places a width of 5 m. the Complex valley - ruins, located between the two first complexes, where was discovered the engraving birds of Zimbabwe, which later became a symbol of the country.

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