Asty Hotel, Prigkipos Karolou 12, about 2 km west of the old city |
One of the simple guest rooms of the Asty Hotel |
View from the Asty Hotel |
Looking from the Asty Hotel into the Turkish controlled north of Cyprus with the giant flag on the mountain |
Kostaki Pantelidi Street, just inside the walls of the old city |
Nicosia is one of few divided cities on earth split between the Turkish North and the Greek South |
Greek side of the Old Town, Nicosia |
American College opposite the walls of the old city of Nicosia |
Greeks call Nicosia Lefkosia (Λευκωσία) white the Turks call it Lefkoşa |
Kostaki Pantelidi Street inside the southwestern wall of the old city |
Nicosia Palace Hotel |
Alexandros Pub & Restaurant, Nicosia |
Kostaki Pantelidi St at the junction of Lidras Street |
Sign for Laiki Yeitonia, the most traditional Greek quarter of Nicosia, Plateia Eleftherias |
Points of Interest in the south of Nicosia |
Minoshis Kiosk, Nicosia |
Nicosia Town Hall |
Cyprus Post Office, Nicosia |
Many South Asians and Filipinos trying to get into Europe use Cyprus as a stepping stone |
Typical architecture of old Nicosia |
South Nicosia - Old Town |
D'Avila Bastion of the city wall of Nicosia |
Piripitsis Kiosk, Nicosia |
One of the taller buildings in the old city, Nicosia |
Map with a walking tour of the Greek half of Nicosia |
Laiki Yeitonia, early morning |
Sidewalk taverna, Laiki Yeitonia |
Laiki Yeitonia is a good place for souvenirs in Nicosia |
Shopping in Laiki Yeitonia - Nicosia |
Silver icons, Laiki Yeitonia - Nicosia |
Typical Greek souvenirs, Laiki Yeitonia - Nicosia |
Souvenir Greek pottery |
Souvenir copies of the Idol of Pomos |
Most of the Cypriot fertility symbols were of pretty poor quality copies of the 3000-2500 BC originals in the Cyprus Museum |
I ended up going for this one |
Souvenir figures of Greek gods and heroes, Laïki Yitonia |
George VI Post Box - Nicosia, Cyprus |
Postcards from Cyprus, Laïki Yitonia |
Mural of a woman painted next to the door to an old house, Nicosia |
Laiki Yeitonia is probably the most interesting area of the Greek half of Nicosia |
Laiki Yeitonia - Nicosia |
Souvenirs of Cyprus |
Christmastime is approaching, South Nicosia |
Restaurant Kathodon, Ledras Street, near the old city Check Point |
Memorial on the Greek side of the Ledras Street checkpoint |
Ledras Street by the Checkpoint |
University of Cyprus Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture - old town Nicosia |
Farenomenes Library - Nicosia |
Solonos Street, Nicosia |
Panagia Faneromeni Church, 1872 - Nicosia |
Glorify Christ is Born - Panagia Faneromeni Church |
Panagia Faneromeni Church - Nicosia |
ΤΗς ΘΕΟΤΟΚΟ |
Double-headed eagle of the Greek Orthodox Church |
Mosaic of the Archangel Gabriel |
Dome of the Panagia Faneromeni Church - Nicosia |
Icon of Saint Spyridon, Nicosia |
Silver Cross, Panagia Faneromeni Church |
Icons - Panagia Faneromeni Church - Nicosia |
Icon of St. Demtrius |
A reminder of that other famous divided city - the Berlin Wall No 2 Kebab House, Nicosia |
Handicrafts - Paint Your Own Tile Murals - Nicosia |
No Border Underwear, Nicosia |
Arablar Mosque - a former French crusader church |
Faneromenis Girls' School, Nicosia |
The marble Mausoleum of the Martyrs of 9 July 1821, Nicosia |
Ο ΚΥΠΡΟΥ ΚΥΠΡΙΑΝΟΣ |
The Altar of Liberty was unveiled in 1921, 100 years after the massacre of 10 July 1821 |
In July 1821 during the Greek War of Independence, 486 prominent Greek Cypriots were executed by the Ottoman Turks in Nicosia |
Shrouded head beneath the canopy of the 1821 Martyrs Tomb |
Altar of the Nation in the square between Panagia Faneromeni Church and the Girls' School |
Faneromenis Girls' School behind a blue construction wall |
Markers for a walking tour of the Old Walled City of Nicosia |
Plateia Tillyrias, Nicosia |
A sure sign of the various foreign communities in Cyprus - Russian, Romanian and Filipino Satellite TV |
Trikoupi Street near Plateia Tillyrias, Nicosia |
Omeriye Mosque, Nicosia |
Omeriye Mosque is an active Muslim place of worship in the Greek half of Nicosia |
Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph Umar is said to have rested here in the 7th C., hence the name Omeriye Mosque |
Minaret of the Omeriye Mosque, Nicosia |
E.U. funded rehabilitation of Old Nicosia |
In the name of Allah, open to me the gates of mercy |
The Omeriye Mosque was the Church of St. Mary, destroyed by the Turks in 1570 during the Ottoman-Venetian War |
The Turks restored the church as a mosque |
A problem with recycling old churches as mosques is that the alignment of the nave is rarely oriented towards Mecca |
The former altar area of the Augustinian Church of St. Mary, now a mosque - Nicosia |
Mohammed described the Second Coming of Jesus (described in the Hadith) |
Ερωδος |
Ethnological Museum - Nicosia |
Ethnologial Museum - House of Hadji Georgakis Kornesios, the Dragoman of Cyprus 1779-1809 |
Patriarchou Grigoriou Street, Nicosia |
Church of Agios Antonious, Nicosia |
Cyprus Kitty, Nicosia |
Severios Library, Nicosia |
Archbishop's Palace - Nicosia |
Archbishop Leonitos |
Archbishop's Palace - Nicosia |
Archbishop's Palace - Nicosia |
Double Headed Eagle on the gate to the Archbishop's Palace, Nicosia |
Archbishop's Palace - Nicosia |
Archbishop Makarios, the 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus |
Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. John |
Marble statue of Archbishop Makarios |
Archbishop Kyprianos, the Martyr of 1821, with the tower of the Cathedral of St. John |
Bust of Archbishop Kyprianos |
Shield held by two angels - has the coat-of-arms been wiped off |
Exhibition: Hostages in Germany - the plundered ecclesiastical treasures of Turkish-Occupied Cyprus |
Byzantine Museum and Art Gallery, Nicosia |
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ΠΑΓΥΠΡΙΟΝ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟΝ |
Pagkyprion (Pancyprian) Gymnasium, 1812, the oldest high school in Cyprus |
Cyprus Folk Art Museum |
Agiou Ioannou Street, old Nicosia north of the Pancyprian Gymnasium |
Tahtakale Mosque, near the Green Zone, old Nicosia |
Ammochostou Street which runs to the Famagusta Gate, old Nicosia |
Office in Exile of Kythrea Municipality (Occupied by Turkish Troops) - Nicosia |
Famagusta Gate, Old Nicosia |
Famagusta Gate, Old Nicosia |
Famagusta Gate now houses a cultural center |
Podocataro Bastion in the southeast portion of the Venetian walls of Nicosia (1567-1570) |
Eleftheria (Freedom) Monument, Podocataro Bastion, Nicosia |
Ελευθερία μνημείο |
The Liberty Monument was erected in the early 1970's (pre-1974) |
Nicosia's Statue of Liberty |
EOKA soldier pulling the chain to raise the gate freeing the EOKA prisoners |
Nicosia's Statue of Liberty symbolizes the struggle for Cyprus' independence from Britain |
Figures emerging from prison symbolizing the freedom of Cyprus following Independence in 1960 |
Freedom Monument - Nicosia |
EOKA Fighters being released from prison in 1959 (according to LP) |
Eleftheria Monument - Nicosia |
Freedom Monument - Nicosia |
Freedom Monument - Nicosia |
Freedom Monument - Nicosia |
Apparently, according to LP, the Freedom Monument only depicts Greek Cypriots |
Was he shot in the forehead? |
Freedom Monument - Nicosia |
Neverland Rock Bar - Leoforos Konstantinou Paleologou, Nicosia |
Ferris Wheel at Olympiacos between two bastions on the south side of Nicosia |
Symbol of Nicosia with the distinctive 11 bastions of the Venetian Walls |
Holy Cross Catholic Church, Nicosia |
Holy Cross Catholic Church, Nicosia |
Interior of Holy Cross Catholic Church, Nicosia |
The rear of the church backs directly onto the Green Line separating the Turkish north from the Greek south |
Nicosia graffiti - No Religion |
Church of the Archangel Michael Trypiotis |
Church of the Archangel Michael Trypiotis |
Church of the Archangel Michael Trypiotis |
Agios Savvas Greek Orthodox Church - Nicosia |
Agios Savvas Church |
Agios Savvas Church |
Pedestrianized Ledra Street |
Shacolas Tower - tallest building in the old city |
Shacolas Tower (the Debenhams on Ledra Street) has a cafeteria on the 6th floor and an observatory on the 11th Floor |
View to the north from Shacolas Tower, Nicosia |
For almost two decades, this was the only view of the north of Nicosia for most Cypriots |
Selimiye Mosque in Turkish-controlled North Nicosia |
Ledra Street - old Nicosia's main shopping street |
Construction outside the walls of South Nicosia |
I was too early for the observation deck to be open so I had to settle for the view from the cafeteria |
Rooftops of old Nicosia |
Cypriot goat on Ledra (Lidras) Street |
Peacocks - Ledra Street, Nicosia |
Ledra Arcade with Nicosia's Starbucks and McDonalds |
Fenix - Ledra Street |
La Gelateria, Nicosia |
La Gelateria, Nicosia |
Old Town Nicosia |
Sokratous (Socrates) Street, Old Town Nicosia |
Cyprus Post Letter Box |
Brew Fellas - nice selection of imported beers just off Ledra Street |
Municipal Theater of Lefkosia |
EOKA fighter Markos Drakos (1930-1957) by Paphos Gate |
Anti-racist graffiti in the Public Garden - "We are all immigrants" |
The Garden of Peace sprayed by a disgruntled migrant, one of perhaps 80,000-90,000 in the Republic of Cyprus |
Supreme Court of Cyprus - one of the few places where Greek and Turkish appear together (also happens on UK sovereign territory) |
Lukoil - Republic of Cyprus - €1.19/liter |
A sturdy house in Nicosia |