• - Famagusta Gate: It is one of the gates of the Venetian wall that surrounds the historical part of the city, which together with its rooms today is an important cultural center. Originally called Porta Giuliana in honor of the architect who designed the wall, it was the strongest and most elaborate entrance gate, but also the lowest. The gate was restored by the Nicosia City Council to return it to its former splendor.
• - Laiki Yitonia"): This is a pedestrian area that includes a large part of the old quarter and has become an example of urban architecture in the city and throughout Cyprus. Located in the heart of the walled city, Yitonia is the result of the municipality's initiative to highlight the charm of the old city, as almost all the buildings have been restored and some new ones have been built while maintaining the elements of the traditional architecture of the island. Small taverns abound. family with wonderful and careful gastronomy.
• - Church of Faneromeni"): This church is, without a doubt, the largest in Nicosia in size. The portal of the church is made up of three full archivolts, with fine collars and intercolumniations chiseled with vegetal motifs. Above the closure of the arches, a sinuous and projecting molding shelters the essential cross raised by two children and flanked by archaizing pilasters. Crowning this complex, an attached sculpture of the Virgin with the Child, of a striking type, presides over the portentous composition, in which piles of collars frame delicately carved images, elevated by pedestals and baldachins of profuse ornamentation. Finally, the façade of the church is dotted with a fabulous wavy canopy, with a ribbed vault, which rests on two buttresses. Its most important differentiating feature is that it has a mausoleum inside where the women were buried. relics of bishops and priests executed by the Ottomans.
• - Church of Tripiotis"): This church is a clear example of the Franco-Byzantine style, highlighting its rich interior. It has a sixteen-sided rotunda that surrounds an octagonal radiating core of two bodies, in which slightly pointed arches open, supported by columns with Romanesque-Byzantine type capitals.
• - Monastery of Saint Irakleidios"): Legend has it that upon the arrival of Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas, they were guided by Irakleidios, who later became Archbishop of Tamassos"), later martyred and buried in the cave in which he lived. In that same place, years later the construction of this ancient monastery began.
• - Cathedral of San Ioannis"): What was originally a small church, built as a place of meeting and worship in the 19th century, with the passage of time has become one of the references of Orthodox Christianity in the city, since it is now the seat of the archbishopric. Inside the temple, its important murals of biblical scenes stand out. Due to its proportions and characteristics, the cloister is part of the long period of transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic style in the island, being closer to the first than the second. In its wide galleries, robust former arches, still in perfect shape, sit on corbels that also serve as support for the ogives.
On each of the flanks of the cloister, the archway that opens to the outside presents variations, reflecting the evolution of Cistercian architecture throughout the works of the monastery. Thus, in the oldest gallery, the opening to the patio is made through broken arches, which become tri-lobed in later sections. The double arcade is based on grouped columns with capitals of varied allegorical and vegetal ornamentation.
• - Arab Ahmet Mosque"): Mosque that shows the faithful reflection of the extensive Turkish presence on the island, this building offers the possibility of coming into contact with Arab culture and the Ottoman heritage. This mosque dates back to 1845, and although it is not the oldest nor the one of greatest monumental importance, it is one of the most beautiful and visited by the Muslim inhabitants of the island. It houses in its interior one of the most impressive collections of tapestries in the entire capital, as well as typical examples of Islamic art.
• - Omeriyeh Mosque") or Old Cathedral of Saint Sophia: This mosque, located next to the central market, is loaded with historical connotations. As could not be otherwise in this city of varied cultures, this mosque has a past and an origin rooted in the ruins of a church. The exterior of it, of Gothic structure due to the restorations it underwent, displays the virtuosity of the hyperbolic and luxurious decoration of the time, which already housed the chrysalis of the Renaissance. This entire place was covered by a garland composed of the omnipresent armillary spheres of the kings of Cyprus and crosses of Christ, now already in memory, since the Muslim symbols strategically replaced any orthodox Christian signs that could remain from the original church, although the pinnacles that crown the robust arches can still be hinted at.
• - Cyprus Archaeological Museum: Located in a 17th-century building, this museum offers Cypriot antiquities ranging from the Neolithic to the Byzantine period. It is undoubtedly the most important museum on the island, housing numerous samples of ceramics, sculptures and jewelry, which shows the importance of art in the successive cultural eras that the city and the island went through. The mosaics show the transition from pagan to Christian influence, such as the replacement of floral and animal motifs with geometric designs. The museum also collects samples of abundant ruins of churches painted with murals and icons that cover styles from century to century, a faithful reflection of what in other times was a Christian defense baton against the neighboring Ottoman Empire.
• - Byzantine Museum and The Galleries"): Just as the History Museum collects more than valuable samples of the different stages through which this territory passed, the Byzantine Museum specializes in the part of history in which the entire island was invaded by the powerful Byzantine Empire, which left traces of its presence in a multitude of social, cultural and economic aspects. Examples from that time are the objects collected by the museum, with the largest collection of icons on the island, dating between century and the century, as well as important oil paintings, maps and lithographs, although these are found in the part of the museum called The Galleries, arranged as if it were an exhibition of paintings, in the style of any large art gallery in Western Europe.
• - Museum of Popular Art"): This space collects a wide variety of folk art, such as wood engravings, tapestry, embroidery, pottery, national costumes and handmade textiles. This type of cultural and artistic expression is an essential part of the history of Cyprus and Cypriots since ancient times, which is why this place has always been famous and loved among the inhabitants of the island. As an anecdotal fact, it is worth mentioning that in the Iliad of Homer refers to a beautiful plate that was sent as a gift from the king of Cyprus to King Agamemnon. Furthermore, legend says that the famous sword of Alexander the Great was made in Cyprus, so popular art has always been very popular among Cypriots. Many of the treasures that have survived the centuries are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum and the Folklore Museum of Nicosia.
• - Town Hall Building&action=edit&redlink=1 "Town Hall Building (Nicosia) (not yet written)"): The first offices of the town hall were located in the Town Hall Square (Plateia Dimarcheiou), where the municipal market is currently located. In 1944, the offices were transferred to the building that housed the Luna Park cabaret, in the heart of the D'avila bastion, and in 1952 the decision was made to establish this location as a permanent location for the town hall given the extensive remodeling to which the building had been subjected. However, in the last years of the century, it was decided that the City Council would move its offices to an area beyond the walls, in an area completely dedicated to administration. Work on the modern town hall began in 2001, although it was delayed due to the discovery of medieval remains and other important archaeological remains. After rescuing these remains and transferring them to the capital's History Museum, the modern building designed by the Canadian architect Johann Prochnow" could be built, and is currently the most modern building in the entire capital.
• - House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios"): This is an important building, originally Venetian, where the Ethnographic Museum of Cyprus is currently located. It still retains the name of the original owner of this palace, Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios"), a businessman who amassed his fortune on the island based on exports of rich silks and spices. In this building in the monumental area, a small and varied collection of works linked to the history and assets of the noble house of this character is on display, which includes several bronze sculptures from the Cypriot school of medieval artists, a Gothic image of the Virgin and Child in stone, an equestrian portrait by the painter Pierre Antoine Quillard), and very rare pieces of armory from the 19th century.