Nicosia (Λευκωσία)

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
CyprusDec11 0316.jpg	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