Nicosia Culture and Sights

Romantic atmosphere and good food in the south of the Old Town. Many houses in the Old City would have to be renovated urgently. In a small part of the city has taken over this task: in the Laiki Gitoni...

The treasures of antiquity at a Glance. The most beautiful and valuable, which archeologists found in Cyprus, is in the 16 halls of this pleasantly small museum. The British built it at the beginning of...

The most valuable of Cypriot churches. Housed in a side wing of the new Archbishop's Palace Museum displays placed in two rooms over 100 of the finest and most valuable Cypriot icons and mosaics. They c...

Gothic architecture in the north of the Old Town. Today's main mosque of Nicosia was from 1208 to 1236 as a Gothic cathedral in the coronation of France-born kings of Cyprus built. The pointed Gothic wi...

The gate from the Venetian period serves as a cultural center, which among other exhibitions, concerts and theater performances take place. The gate, the Porta Giuliana Venetians called, consists of a...

The Ottoman period as a granary and church Markthalle used from the 12th Century is an architectural potpourri of Byzantine and Gothic style elements. Only from the outside to be considered, in additi...

From 11 Floor of the skyscraper at discretion of Lídras Street overlooks entirely Nicosia. On tape, there are multiple explanations for the city's history. Tgl. 9.30-17 clock, Admission 50 c, in the e...

The Orthodox Cathedral of the city is a surprisingly small building, 1662 on the ruins of a Crusader church was established. The interior was from 1736 to 1756 completely ausgemalt. What is striking i...

In a former monastery of the Turkish Dervish Order, in addition to Turkish arts and crafts especially musical instruments and costumes of the "dancing dervishes" showed their brotherhood with headquar...