Cyprus Museum Nicosia

... too much, those cities tended to be crowded and usually boring aside from having a smattering of vaguely interesting museums, but Nicosia had the potential to be different. Nicosia, was the last divided capital in the world. Since 1974, the city, ...

... our lunch. We walk as far as the old town of – Laiki Yitonia, and also come to the green line that separates Cypriot Nicosia with the Turkish. The site below has every detail of the places we visited today, and a little about the history.  I ...

... ) due to the fact that in 1974 Cyprus was invaded by Turkey, who took over and occupied almost 40% of Cyprus which includes part of the city of Nicosia. The UN sent in a Peace Keeping Force, which is still in place today, and they established a "buffer/no ...

... 2 singles together for us (this is very common all over Europe). Thursday 4th January The whole of Cyprus is an immense open air museum, and the living past is everywhere. Relics and monuments of every period from the misty pre-historic days of ...

... a centre for the cult of the Greek goddess Aphrodite and we saw a beautiful 1st century BC marble statue of her at the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia. No pix allowed but I bought the postcard ! On the way to Nicosia, we drove past citrus and olive groves, ...

... so I'm going to be stationed at the Lemba Archaeological Research Center while I help out with post-ex, cataloguing at the Paphos museum, and working on another dig. I'll be heading to Syria June 7th and then returning to London July 20th. Hopefully  ...

... told that it was up to 35 degrees celius yesterday so biking early is a necessity. we'll see what the rest of the day brings. What the rest of the day brought--- Knights Hospitaller's Fort Cypriot Wine Museum and Tasting Tito's Fish Meze Dinner

Ochtend: Lefkosia. House of Dragoman Hadji Georgakis Kornesios. Archbishops Palace. Statue Makarios. St Johns Cathedral; Ethnografisch museum Markt Via Church Archangel Michaelis (overstroming Nikosia, toen moat gevuld werd met water stroomde weg door 1 ...