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Whether you're in Guzelyurt for a short break, on a day trip or just enjoying some leisure time, Guzelyurt has plenty to keep you amused.
There are currently 48 Attractions in Guzelyurt
African Queen Boat Trip
The African Queen is a 23 metre Traditional Turkish “Ketch” style Gullet, occupying a prime mooring location next to the Tourist Information Office - Marina Building in Kyrenia’s historic Old Harbour....
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Aga Cafer Pasa Cesme
In the northwest corner of Namik Kemal Square, to the right of the Venetian facade, is the Aga Cafer Pasa Fountain, one of the many Ottoman fountains that still adorn Famagusta. It is believed to have...
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Aga Cafer Pasa Hamam
This early Ottoman hamam was built by Aga Cafer PAsa in 1601 within the grounds of the Franciscan monastery; the changing room is part of an earlier medieval building, distinguished from the later con...
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Antiphonitis Monastery (Antiphonitis Kilisesi)
The Antiphonitis Monastery was constructed in the 12th Century AD in a remote part of the Five Finger Mountains.
Originally part of an important monastery, the building is one of the finest of its ...
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Armenian Church
Adjacent to the Carmelite Church is the smaller, better preserved Armenian Church. Judging by the style, it appears to date from the 1360s. Fragments of medieval wall painting ssurvive inside, as do A...
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Bellapais Village (Bellapais Manastiri)
Bellapais village can be seen towering above Kyrenia, directly south into the hills, about four miles from the Harbour.
There are some superb restaurants in the village, most notably The Tree of Id...
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Buffavento Castle (Buffavento Kalesi)
At an altitude of 954m Buffavento, meaning "Wind Defying", was originally built as a watchower against Arab raids by the Byzantines.
It was later converted into a castle by the Lusignans, who more...
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Canbulat Gate and Bastion
This gate is named after Canbulat, the Bey of Kilis, one of the heroes of the Ottoman seige of Famagusta. It houses the hero's entombed remains and has become a place of pilgrimage for modern-day Turk...
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Carmelite Church
In a field across the road from the Tanner's Mosque are the ruins of the Carmelite Church.
It is here that St. Peter Thomas, Carmelite Friar, Patriarch of Constantinople and papal legate to the Ea...
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Cathederal of St. Sophia
Built by the Lusignans between 1208 and 1326, Selimiye is accepted to be the most important example of Gothic architecture in Cyprus.
The momumental main door and the carved stone window abve it ar...
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Church of St. Fotu
Turkish legend calls this site St. Fotu, a name associated with 'light'. The name suggests a reference to the Church of St. Clare, which ws tied to a convent of Franciscan nuns known as 'Poor Clares' ...
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Church of St. George of the Greeks / Church of St. Symeon
Built in the 1360s, this once magnificent cathedral presents a rare example in the East of an Orthodox church built in the Cypriot Gothic style of the Lusignans. However, by virtue of its functioning ...
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Church of St. George of the Latins
Although now in ruins, some of the finest medieval carved stone ornamentation in Cyprus can be found at St. George of the Latins. The church dates back to the first decade of the 14th century (between...
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Church of St. Zoni & Church of St. Nikolaos
Heading northwest from Canbulat Gate, on the way back to the centre of town are two small and closely situated Franco-Byzentine-style churches. To the north are the ruins of St. Nikolaos; to the west ...
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Church of Sts. Peter & Paul
Across a narrow street parallel to the south side of the royal palace is the site historically known as the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul. Although theories abound, a positive identification of this b...
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City of Famagusta
The city of Famagusta is one of the finest examples of mediaeval architecture in the eastern Mediterranean and, in its present state of preservation, is equal to that of the old cities of Carcassone a...
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Diamante Bastion
The Diamante Bastion is situated at the northern corner of the town, where the walls of Famagusta turn to face the sea.
Climb here - with caution - for a view of the harbour. ...
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Franciscan Church and Monastery
Daring with some certainty from the late 13th century are the ruins of the Franciscan Church, on of the earliest of the LAtin ecclesiastical buildings in Famagusta. The site, immediately north of the ...
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Hospital of St. Anthony
Just south of the Sea Gate and adjacent to the city walls are the remains of the Hospital of St. Anthony. Massive granite columns taken from nearby Salamis can be seen broken and scattered about the g...
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Ikon Muzesi (Icon Museum)
The Archangelos Church, located around the corner and up the slight incline from the historical Kyrenia Harbour, was built in the 1860 and is definitely worth seeing.
A tower was added after the ch...
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Kertikli Hamam
Heading back to town, along NAmi Efendi street, one passes through a residential area.
The Kertikli Hamam is a 16th-century bathhouse which was built by the Ottomans not long after their arrival. E...
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Kizil Hamam (Scarlet Bath)
The foundation of this 16th century Ottoman bathhouse, or hamam, are visible to the right at the corner of Suphi Ezel Street, on the way to the Carmelite and Armenian Churches. ...
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Kuru Cesme (Dry Fountain)
The unrestored 17th-century Ottoman fountain is incorporated into the Venetian walling, just down the Kizil Hamam on the opposite side of Kuru Cesme Street. ...
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Kyrenia Castle (Girne Kalesi)
The castle is thought to have been constructed to protect the town against the Arab raids in the 7th century. Like the Kantara Castle, it played an important role in the Lusignan period. In this perio...
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Kyrenia Gate (Girne Kapaisi)
The Kyrenia Gatew is the arched northern entry into the city of nicosia through the city walls.
It was built by the Venetians in 1567. The gatew used to be called "Porta Del Proveditore" named afte...
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Kyrenia Harbour (Girne Eski Liman)
The coolest place to be in Northern Cyprus in the summer is the Kyrenia harbourside, and with good reason! Sea breezes mix with cooler air from the nearby mountains, creating a great place to escape f...
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Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
The Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Lala Mustafa Paşa Camii) originally known as the Saint Nicolas Cathedral and later as the Ayasofya (Saint Sophia) Mosque of Magusa is the largest medieval ...
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Martinengo Bastion
A short walk up the rampart just behind the Armenian Church takes visitors to the top of the Martinengo Bastion. Here one has a sweeping view of the dry moat and modern town. ...
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Museum of Folk Arts (Halk Sanatlari Muzesi)
Within the historical yacht port of Kyrenia, an 18th century house now serves as the museum. Olive oil presses, primitive ploughs, cubes a wooden threshing sled, agricultural tools, a loom and pulley ...
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Namik Kemal Prison & Museum
Known as the Shakespeare of Turkish literature, Namik Kemal was exiled to Cyprus after offending the Ottoman Sultan in his memorable work, Vatan Yahut Silistre. He was imprisoned in the present buildi...
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Namik Kemal Square
Famagusta's picturesque central square has witnessed much history. Here, during an outbreak of the plague in 1362, the papal legate, Peter Thomas, led his procession of barefooted followers from the c...
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Namik Kemal Square
Famagusta's picturesque central square has witnessed much history. Here, during an outbreak of the plague in 1362, the papal legate, Peter Thomas, led his procession of barefooted followers from the c...
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Nestorian Church
A short detour off the main road and across the small parking lot to the right, leads to the so-called Nestorian Church. The identification of this building as such is based solely on the medieval sou...
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Nicosia Capital City
The capital of the Island is split between the Greeks and Turks, though passage across the Green Line is now a lot simpler, and quite exciting!! The city has everything you'd expect from a modern Euro...
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Othello's Tower (Othello Kulesi)
Above the gateway is a marble slab on which sculptured the badge of Venice, a winged lion, so frequently seen in other parts of Cyprus such as in Kyrenia Castle, Nicosia, and Bellapais Abbey. Inscrip...
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Ravelin (Akkule)
Ravelin is one of the two arched entries into the walled cit of Famagusta. When the Venetians were surrounded by the Ottomans in 1571, the white flag was hoisted here.
For this reason the Ravelin G...
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Salamis Ruins (Salamis Harabeleri)
he earliest archaeological finds go back to the eleventh century BCE (Late Bronze Age III). The copper ores of Cyprus made the island an essential node in the earliest trade networks, and Cyprus was a...
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Sea Gate
The Sea Gate is one of two original entrances to the walled city (also see Land Gate). Although medieval in its origins, it gets its distinctive appearance from the Venetians, having been remodeled to...
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Ship Wreck Musuem (Batik Gemi Muzesi)
The Shipwreck Museum, is housed in the Gothic halls of Kyrenia Castle. The Shipwreck Museum houses one of the most remarkable marine archaeological finds in the world.
Sailing to North Cyprus – in ...
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St. Nicholas Cathedral / Lala Mustafa Pasa Mosque
Famagusta's former Latin Cathedral of St. Nicholas is widely agreed to be one of he most splendid and beautiful of the Frankish buildings that survives in the Near East.
It was here, between the ye...
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The Blue House (Movi Kosk)
The Mavi Kosk was built in 1973 by Byron Pavlides, a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur and man of great mystery. By day he was the main agent for General Motors, Vauxhall and Opel in Cyprus, but by night it ...
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The Gamblers Inn
The Gamblers Inn, or Kumarcilar Han was built around 1600 as a hotel for travellers. Like all caravanserais (inns for travellers), you entered via a gateway right into the heart of the inn, a large co...
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The Twin Churches (Ikiz Kiliseler)
The larger of the two churches built in the 14th century belonged to the Knights of Templar.
When the last grandmaster and their other leaders were burned as heretics in 1313, the order came to an ...
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Turtle Watching on Alagadi Beach
The sight of newly-hatched sea turtles scrabbling out of their sandy nest chambers on North Cyprus beaches and scuttling towards to the open sea is a joy to watch. Their mothers have swum in the warm ...
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Unnamed Churches
In the 14th century, Famagusta boasted half a dozen Latin nunneries, each of which would have possessed a small Gothic church. Very little is known about these unnamed churches, but it is very probabl...
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Venetian / Chimney House
This site is known as both the Venetian House and the Chimney House. Although its exterior walls are Venetian, its interior is distinctly Turkish. Within the spacious courtyard is a renovated Turkish ...
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Venetian Palace
Only the grand east facade and back walls of the courtyard remain today of the Venetian Palace. Originally a royal palace of the Lusignans, this site became the official residence of the acting Veneti...
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Violahill Casino
Mission: To become the biggest casino chain of Europe serving out of the home entertainment and games, Blending the Entertainment at games, and games at entertainment concepts in a modern style, setti...
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