Arabahmet Mosque (Şehit Salahi Şevket Sokak, north Nicosia) – this mosque was built in the late 16th century, and was named after a commander of the 1571 Ottoman army. This building was first restored in 1845 and extensively restored in the 1990s, and inside has the distinctive modest interior decorated with carpets on the floor […]
Amathus – located on the south coast of Cyprus (about 7 km east of the town of Lemesos, or 50 minutes southwest of Nicosia), a number of historic finds are located here. One of them was the ruins of a Roman Temple of Aphrodite, a Roman agora (marketplace), two important necropolis with carved tombs which […]
A.G. Leventis Gallery (5, A.G. Leventis Street, 1097 Nicosia) — opened in 2014 on the dividing line between the segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities, this museum (founded by the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the family of the late businessman, art connoisseur and gallery namesake Anastasios George Leventis) houses a collection of over 800 paintings […]