Lion Heart Castle

Nevertheless, the excavations executed the spectacle that the original castle was strengthened by the Byzances in the seventh century ap. Jesus Christ to protect against Arab done a descent dans.le king Richard the rule of the Heart of Lion was not welcomed in Cyprus, therefore it sold Templier to the island to the Knights, that in the bend sold it TO THE Joint King Guy of Lusignan. Thus, the Cyprus was under the rule of frankish for almost 300 years (1192-1489). The castle, that was at first very small, was enlarged and was strengthened between 1208 and 1211 by Lusignan the King Jhon of.

In this period, these fortifications of Byzance were reproduced and thus a new door, a horseshoe and a towers in square form, a ways out of arrow, keeps pieces and the prisons were added to the castle. It was thus used also a place of refuge in the periods of war and as a place of recration in the calm times.

The castle poorly was damaged by the assaults of Genoese in 1973, but in 1489 Cyprus came under the Venetian rule and therefore the castle was modified and refortified to meet the new military threat put by the usage of powder and the big canons, and took thus his current form with its big towers of loopholed. It was surrounded by the cutting fiux, that had water in them until the 1400. The Lusignan of three lions emblom on the interior of the safe was brought to the different castle of a building. Of more, there is a Byzantine Church (the St. George Cgurch) of the 1100 on the castle reason.

In 1571, the castle and the city went to the army of victorious Ottomon. The tomb of the Ottomon Admiral Algerian Sad? k Pasha, that is dead during the mentioned conquest, is still in the castle. All the modifications added to the castle during the Rests Foot perios were destroyed during the completed restoration during the British colonial rule time.

The castle was used for the goals of touristic of 1960 until 1963, and only partially was opened for the tourism of 1963 until 1974, as it principally was used for the goals military by the national Greek Cypriot Guard. Since 1974 this was opened to the public under the check of the Office of Antiquities and to the Museums.

THE BATIMENTS HAVE LOCALIZES IN THE CHATEAU OF KYRENIA

The Tower of Lusignan: was constructed by John of Iselin in the years 1208-1211, on the remainders of the fortifications of Byzance. The Byzance, British, Lusignan, Venetian, Ottomon, and the British military flags are exposed in this tower.

St. THE Church of george: is the building of Byzance of the 12E century. It was a separated one incorporates the period of Byzance and Lusignan and the party done of reason of castle in the Venetian period.

The reservoir: the most probably was constructed during the period of Lusignan and furnished water for the castle.

The prisons: were constructed in the period of Lusignan and observed A LOT OF acts of torturous under the rule of the King Peter 1. These days, there is an exposition in an of these prisons with a fax of a room of torture.

Dispatch the Museum of Accident: contains the accident of one of the older boats never saved. It is known to have belonged to floats it Kingdom Hellednistique after the death of Alexander in the Mediterranean. It was discovered by a sponge dishwasher in 1965, to a depth of 24 meters, 1.5 km of the shore, and saved in an expedition directed by a student graduate of the university of Pensylvanie.

The Venetian Tower: reflects the typical characteristics of architecturel in the 16E century the Venetian period. These days, it contains the wax exposition figure Venetian soldiers that prepare to empty canons, etc.

K? rn? The cemetery: an exposition of excavations of the first one and last Is a question of Bronze found on a cemetery in the K?rn? of town.

Mediterranean Excavaions of Cemetery: the exposition of discoveries and of models of cemeteries as they were customary during the periods Hellednistiques and Byzantine.

The exposition of Dreghorn of Williom and the conference Room: belongs to the period of Lusignan and is an exposition of authentic drawings with the "Kyrenia" of theme by William Dreghorn