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Lapidary Museum
Lapidary Museum
Lapidary Museum (Selimiye Sokak, north Nicosia) – this museum (located just east of Selimiye Mosque) is housed in a 15th century Venetian building, and is packed to the ceiling with a wide range of stone artifacts, from a Lusignan sarcophagus, headstones, to coats-of-arms and gargoyles that spill out into the museum’s garden. In the garden there is also a stone Lion of St Mark, the Venetian symbol used so much on buildings. It is similar to, but not the actual lion that would have originally been on top of Venetian column in Ataturk Square in north Nicosia. Hours: 8:30 am – 3:00 pm daily.