| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
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The old city.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
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The modern city from the Main Gate.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
The modern city stretches a long way.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
The modern city.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
Parts of the city walls are overgrown.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
View to the sea.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
View to the Karpaz Peninsula.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
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View to Varosha.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Main Gate
|
 |
The tourist office is in a former mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
The old city within the walls is very green.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
Orange tree.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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The narrow streets of the old city inside the walls.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
One of the many stone churches in the old city.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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The city walls.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
Dates.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
There are many ruins in the old city.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Shops and workshops.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Petek is a patissarie.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
 |
The 14th century St Nicholas Cathedral was converted by the Ottomans into the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
 |
The building was constructed by the Lusignan Franks using French craftsmen.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The original church was used for Lusignan coronations.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
 |
Gothic design.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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Side view.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The original twin towers (modelled on the cathedral at Reims) were destroyed by Ottoman shelling.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
 |
Gothic decoration.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The carved entrance.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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Inside the cathedral-like mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The carpet.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The pulpit.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The ceiling.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The windows were originally made with stained glass.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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The five prayer times.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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Ablution fountain.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
|
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Fig tree planted in the 1300s around the time the original cathedral was built.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Support for Palestine from a Kurdish visitor from Iraq.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
Turkish Cypriot woman.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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The Othello Citadel is named after a reference in Shakespere.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
 |
The Citadel is like a city within a city and was named by the British.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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The Lion of Venice over the entrance.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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The Citadel is entered via a short tunnel.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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The Great Hall is Frankish.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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The doorways of the Great Hall.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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The interior of the Great Hall.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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Varosha from the citadel.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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Passageways.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
 |
View over the Citadel from its walls.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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View over the old city.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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View out to the sea.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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View along the old city's walls.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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The harbour breakwaters.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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Much of the structure is in ruins.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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Former chambers.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Othello Citadel
|
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Tunnels.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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The Orthello Restaurant.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Desdamona Square
|
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Desdamona Square near the Othello Citadel.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Desdamona Square
|
 |
Desdamona Square is next to the city walls.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Tanners' Mosque
|
 |
The Tanners' Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Tanners' Mosque
|
 |
The front of the mosque. It was formerly a church.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Tanners' Mosque
|
 |
The carved entrance doorway.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
 |
The old city of Famagusta has many stone buildings from the Frankish era.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Corner cafe.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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London influenced shop.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Agia Zoni and Agios Nikolas.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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House forming an arch over the road.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Derelict house.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Wooden shutters.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Bar in a stone building.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sinan Pasha Mosque
|
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Peter and Paul Cathedral is now the Sinan Pasha Mosque. It was used by the British as a grain and potato store.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sinan Pasha Mosque
|
 |
The building is notable for its wide flying buttresses.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Cobbled street with shops.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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The Carmelite (1366) and Armenian (14th century) churches were in a military zone until recently.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Carmelite Church
|
 |
Side view of the Carmelite Church (of St Mary).
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Carmelite Church
|
 |
The ruined interior.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Carmelite Church
|
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View of the Armenian Church from the Carmelite Church.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Armenian Church
|
 |
The Armenian Church (St Mary's).
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Armenian Church
|
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The front of the Armenian Church.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Armenian Church
|
 |
The interior.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Armenian Church
|
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The church has faded murals.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Armenian Church
|
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Faded murals.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Armenian Church
|
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The stone ceiling.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Deserted area by the city walls in the North of the old city.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
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The Sea Gate.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
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The Venetian Lion is the symbol of that city state.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
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View of the old city from the Sea Gate.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
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The East city walls.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
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The sea and the port.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
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The walls to the West.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
Site / Event : Sea Gate
|
 |
View of the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Row of shops.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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Shop fronts.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
|
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St George of the Latins.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
|
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Namik Kemal Square is named after a poet and playwrite (1840-1888) who was exiled to Cyprus for offending the Ottoman rulers.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
|
 |
The Ottoman Cafer Pasha Baths and a column from Salamis.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
|
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Ruins of the Frankish church of St Francis and a bath house.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
|
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Sarcophagos known as the Tomb of Venus.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
|
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Remnant of a church.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
Site / Event : Venetian Palace
|
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The entrance to the Venetian Palace.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
Site / Event : Venetian Palace
|
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The Venetian Palace where the last governor from Venice (Bragadin) lived and died in 1571.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
Site / Event : Venetian Palace
|
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Fountain for drinking.
|
2023 |
| North Cyprus |
City / Town : Famagusta
District : Namik Kemal Square
Site / Event : Venetian Palace
|
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The prison where Namik Kemal was imprisoned between 1873 and 1876.
|
2023 |
were added from 1 March 2026.