| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Archbishops' Palace
|
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The Archbishops' Palace dates from 1960.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Archbishops' Palace
|
 |
 The palace was destroyed by the Greek backed coup that overthrew President Makarios in 1974.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
Agios Savvas Church.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Archangel Michael Trypiotis Church
|
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Archangel Michael Trypiotis Church.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Archangel Michael Trypiotis Church
|
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Carved doorway.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Archangel Michael Trypiotis Church
|
 |
Side entrance.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
The area near the Archbishops' Palace.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Agios Ioannis Cathedral
|
 |
Agios Ioannis Cathedral.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Agios Ioannis Cathedral
|
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The main entrance.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Agios Ioannis Cathedral
|
 |
Inside the cathedral.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
School attended by first Cyprus President, Makarios.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Famagusta Gate
|
 |
Street scene near Famagusta Gate.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Famagusta Gate
|
 |
Famagusta Gate is one of three that survive.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Famagusta Gate
|
 |
Ottoman signature.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Famagusta Gate
|
 |
Part of the city walls.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
The Venetian Walls with the Kyrenia Mountains less than 20km away.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
Bastion.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
Part of the city walls.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
View from the city walls to the modern city.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
|
 |
View from the bastion.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Liberty Monument
|
 |
Monument commemorating the independence of Cyprus from the UK. Photo from 1981.
|
1981 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Liberty Monument
|
 |
The Liberty Monument in 2023.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Liberty Monument
|
 |
The release of prisoners held by the British.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Liberty Monument
|
 |
Statue of Elephtheria, the goddess of Freedom.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
|
 |
Faneromeni Square used to be the city centre.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
|
 |
Shady square with cafes.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
|
 |
Faneromeni Square has a mosque.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
|
 |
Inside of a closed mosque.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
The Church of Panayias Phaneromenis dominates one side of Faneromeni Square.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
The church dates from 1872.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
The church was built on the site of an ancient nunnery.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
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The entrance.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
The church interior.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
Silver crucifix.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
The icon covered nave.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
Couple outside the church.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
District : Faneromeni Square
Site / Event : Church of Panayias Phaneromenis
|
 |
Marble memorial to four priests executed by the Ottomans in 1821 for supporting Greek Independence.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
The Cyprus Museum is outside the old city walls.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
The Classical style entrance to the museum.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Clay female figure from the stone age era.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Decorated stone vessel.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Jar from a burial site.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Model of the sacred enclosure at Vounis (c2100 BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Mycenaean vase, c1230 BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Mycenaean vase with handles painted with bulls and goats, c1230 BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Vase made on a wheel imported from Syria (15th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Pottery (Early Geometric Period, 11th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Painted pot from 600 BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Part of the museum's extensive collection of painted pottery from c600 BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
6th century BCE painted pottery.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Pot painted with a deer (600 BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Pot painted with a bull (600 BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Jug with a handle shaped like a bull.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Jug painted with a centaur, 750 BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
6th century BCE pottery with a painted bird.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Red coloured pot with a figure holding a pot.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Detail of a figure holding a pot.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Detail of a winged figure with a large pot.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Drinking horn from 400 BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Pot with a bull (400 BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Pot with a woman holding another pot, a very common theme (c325 BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Decorated jug from the Graeco-Roman Period, 50 BCE - 395.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Graeco-Roman vase.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
The famous 7th century terracotta figures from Agios Irini.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
The Agios Irini figures number 2000 and are displayed as found.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Some of the Agios Irini figures are life size.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Full size Agios Irini figure with raised hand.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Bearded terracotta head (Agios Irini).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Full size Agios Irini figure with long beard.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone statue of female holding a bull, 6th century BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
5th century figure from Polis.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone relief depicting Apollo as a lyre player (3rd century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
The head of Dionysos (2nd century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Bronze statue of Roman Emperor, Septimus Severus who died in 211.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
The head of Roman Emperor, Septimus Severus.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Cylindrical seal with double headed bird.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Dark vase found in a tomb.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Stone Egyptian style scarabs found in Cypriot tombs.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Egyptian amulet made of paste (6th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Bronze statue of horned god from Enkomi (12th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Bronze statue of a god (Enkomi, 12th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone musicians (6th century BCE, Larnaca).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone group of three people.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone statue of Aphrodite with Eros on her shoulder, 2nd century BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Funerary limestone statue of a lion, 6th century BCE.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Funerary limestone statue of a sphynx (6th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone statue of Canopus (3rd century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone head of the god, Serapis (3rd century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Marble head of the goddess, Artemis (Roman era, 2nd century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone head of a satyr (1st century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone head of the Egyptian goddess, Isis (1st century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Limestone coiled sacred snake (3rd century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Marble bust of Roman Empress, Agrippina the Elder (1st century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Marble bust of Roman Emperor, Caligula (1st century).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Bronze pins (12th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Bronze image of two lions attacking a bull (Vouni, 5th century BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Alexander the Great coin (332 to 320 BCE).
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Coin with Ptolemy IV.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Part of a hoard of 2484 silver Ptolemaic coins found below a mosaic floor in the House of Dionysos in Paphos.
|
2023 |
| Cyprus |
City / Town : Nicosia
Site / Event : Cyprus Museum
|
 |
Byzantine jewelry (7th century).
|
2023 |
