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Byzantine Tombs

Posted under Kyrenia on Sunday, 25 October 2009 by Lavinia Neville Smith
Byzantine Tombs | Kyrenia Opposite the Icon Museum, looking across the road to the west beneath the Perge restaurant, are tombs dating from the 4th C. There are many others is the area as this was the town necropolis. Though most of them now are submerged beneath the more modern town...
Byzantine Tombs

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Posted under Kyrenia on Sunday, 25 October 2009 by Lavinia Neville Smith
Icon Museum | Kyrenia At the western end of the harbour is the church of the Archangel Michael. Dating from the end of the 19th C, it was constructed on an eminence upon which one of the original towers of the old town walls was built. It is of little architectural merit but was opened in 1990 as...
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St. Barnabas – Patron Saint of Cyprus

Posted under Salamis on Sunday, 25 October 2009 by Lavinia Neville Smith
Standing on a slight rise and overlooking the huge necropolis of Salamis is the twin- domed church dedicated to St. Barnabas, patron saint of Cyprus. This church, now used as an icon museum with the ancillary monks’ cells housing an impressive collection of Cypriot artefacts dating from the...
St. Barnabas – Patron Saint of Cyprus