Famagusta, Othello’s City
With its port having a natural depth, Famagusta developed at those times by attracting ships, traders, and shipping merchants from both the Eastern Mediterranean and many locations around the world. Since the church was regarded as a sign of richness at the time, merchants had many temples built and this situation led Famagusta to be known as an area of churches over time.
Every church in this city, which is furnished with the churches built by women and men who wanted to purchase land from heaven corresponding to every day of the year, has its own story. Today’s Lala Mustapha Pasha Mosque, which was once a church in a region where the most spectacular residuals of the Middle Age rest these days, still endures and it is being protected as a fascinating work of art with its gothic style. Sightseeing on the Venetian city walls having a length of 3 km and surrounding the whole Famagusta city, which was conquered by the Ottomans, is enough to expose the city and its history as a postcard that has reached from past to present.
Salamis, which was Cyprus’s City of Kings in ancient times, still continues to host Roman antiquities. Statues, historical columns, theaters, and bathhouses, which are among the magnificently protected historical structures, endured up to the present without being ruined. Its impassable castle is the historical antiquity that became an inspiration for the theater play named Othello, a famous work of art written by the famous author William Shakespeare.
Venetian palaces where the royal family lived and whose defense model was drawn up by Michelangelo, treasures that could not yet been found, historical tombs removed from the soil that is full of miraculous revelations and far too numerous historical antiquities, are enough to render the city of Famagusta the pearl of the north. The city of Famagusta, a cozy port with its historical richness for those who want to have a journey toward the past, awaits alluringly those who do not believe in its history. You too come and witness history.
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