Asty Hotel Nicosia

Our first stop in the Mediterranean was Cyprus, where we docked at the island's main port of Limassol, a bustling, cosmopolitan seaside town that peaks in the summer with invading hordes of tourists. Cyprus was once 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 ...

... cloth, which he donated to the Milan cathedral. <br><br>The beautiful House of Patsalos, houses the Lace and Silverware Museum of Lefkara. <br>The church of Archangelos Michail in Kato Lefkara is of the single aisled domed type, and has wall paintings of the late 12th century. <br><br>At Pano Lefkara -(upper) there is the church of the Holy Cross with a beautiful 18th century iconostasis and a unique 13th century silver cross. <br><br>A ...

... abstract art of the contemporary world.<br><br><br><br><br><br>City Museum and Archives<br><br><br><br>The municipal museum is housed in a 1881 building, which was the residence and office of the first colonial Port Master of Larnaca.<br><br>On the ground floor is the City museum with exhibits emphasizing the long, glorious and uninterrupted history of ...

... every 30 meters you can see the "visiting wells" of this unbelievable project, which channeled the water of the river Tremithos to Larnaca till the 1950&#8217;s,<br><br>Many researchers and historians believe that this tremendous public work has existed since Roman times. <br><br>It was reconstructed in 1745 on the basis of the surviving facilities. It goes back to the ...

... 8220;The building of Cyprus Tourist Organization,&#8221; &#8220;The Central Police Station&#8221;, &#8220;The Governors Residence&#8221;, and &#8220;The Larnaca old Hospital&#8221; near the American Academy.<br><br><br><br>URBAN TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS<br><br>(I got from the tourist information)<br><br><br><br>This is the anonymous ...

... of 1571. <br><br><br><br>Before that it used to be the Catholic Church of the Holy Cross. Built in the 10th or 11th century, this church was founded as an Orthodox Basilica, but, as can be observed, one of its characteristic three corridors was demolished. Its Byzantine origin is also indicated by recently discovered Byzantine wall paintings of Saint George.<br><br><br ...

... of Northern Cyprus behind the Green Line is only recognized by you guessed it...Turkey. In fact, the old airport of Lefkosa is in the Turkish part and as a result of the illigitimacy of the Turkish Republic, only has flights to Turkey. This is why Larnaca and Paphos on the coast have the main airports for the rest of the country. <br><br>In Skopje a simple bridge took me from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. In Sarajevo it was as easy as crossing an ...

... any money left over, since the cruise was robbing me of all but $40? If there was an extra-credit question, it was: What, exactly, did the horny-headed island's shape resemble? To me, it looked like a devillish Pac-Man. -- Ooh, I nailed that question! And what prologue could be content without a brotherly foreward to accompany it!? This story's prologue is especially lucky, because the foreward is going to be another edition of the never-before-put-in ...

... Cypriots were killed by Greek Cypriots. I definitely would like to know more about the other side of the story though. They took us on a tour of the old city too but we pretty much just went to places that me and my friends went to a few weeks back when we crossed the border alone. It was fun though, extremely hot, but fun.

hi there well what have we been up to in nicosia over the last couple of days, we have visited the local shopping strips, been to the bazaar and mixed with the locals, caught up with family including my mums aunty who has an uncanny resemblance to her sister - yaya ( nana ) and also today visitited a local bakery and enjoyed some local food, including kalamta olive bread, some desserts and grilled meats. we are now ...