Castles, ancient cities and monasteries — walk through 9,000 years of island history.
Büyük Hamam, in Nicosia's walled city near İplik Pazarı, is a dressed-stone building opened as the church of St. George…
Apostolos Andreas Monastery is a working Orthodox place of worship at the easternmost tip of the Karpaz Peninsula, just south…
A car-free historic market street in Nicosia’s walled city, running between the Asmaaltı, Sarayönü and Selimiye quarters to the Lokmacı…
Bellapais Abbey is a 13th-14th century Lusignan abbey in the village of Beylerbeyi, on the Besparmak slopes southeast of Kyrenia.…
The highest and smallest of the three mountain castles, on a peak of about 950 m on the Kyrenia range…
Büyük Han is the 1572 Ottoman caravanserai beside Asmaaltı Square in Nicosia’s walled city, with 68 rooms on two floors…
An early 19th-century Ottoman mansion in the Arabahmet quarter of Nicosia’s walled city, an Ethnographic Museum since 1988. Gothic-based stone…
Enkomi, west of Famagusta near the village of Tuzla, is a Late Bronze Age port city that grew rich on…
The Land Gate is the only main landward entrance to Famagusta’s walled city and, after Othello Castle, the oldest part…
A Byzantine-Lusignan mountain castle at the eastern end of the Kyrenia Mountains, above Kaplıca village in Iskele. The easiest of…
Fortress at the east end of Kyrenia’s Old Harbour, built up layer by layer from Byzantine to Venetian times. Inside…
Kyrenia Gate is the northern of the three surviving gates of Nicosia’s 1567 Venetian walls: a domed room added in…
Kırklar Tekke is an Ottoman-period lodge and shrine of the forty martyrs near Kırklar village, next to Ercan east of…
Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque is the 14th-century Gothic cathedral on Namık Kemal Square in Famagusta’s walled city, a mosque since…
The Mevlevi Tekke Museum, just south of the Kyrenia Gate in Nicosia’s walled city, preserves the whirling hall, kitchen and…
A small two-storey museum in the courtyard of the Venetian Palace in Famagusta’s walled city, where the poet Namık Kemal…
Othello Castle stands in Famagusta’s walled city beside the Sea Gate, built by the Lusignans in the 14th century and…
The ancient capital of Cyprus, on a wooded flat facing the sea at Yeni Boğaziçi, north of Famagusta. A colonnaded…
Selimiye Mosque, at the heart of Nicosia’s walled city, is the Gothic St. Sophia Cathedral built by the Lusignans in…
The Soli ruins lie on a sea-facing slope 1.5 km west of Gemikonağı near Lefke, the remains of a harbour…
St. Barnabas Monastery stands a few km north of Famagusta beside the Salamis ruins. One courtyard holds the Icon Museum…
St. Hilarion Castle is a Byzantine-founded Lusignan summer palace perched at 732 m on the Kyrenia range, about 10 km…
The ghost district at Famagusta’s southern coastal tip, sealed off in 1974 and opened to visitors in stages on 8…
The Venetian Column is a 6 m single-piece granite monument from Salamis standing in the middle of Sarayönü (Atatürk) Square…
Vouni Palace is a 137-room terraced palace ruin from around 500 BC on a 250-metre hill above Soli, near Bademliköy…
