In the years preceding the Ottoman invasion of Cyprus the Venetians bolstered Nicosia’s defences and you can still see the walls and gates that they constructed.
Famagusta Gate is the most impressive fragment of these old defences and is an exact copy of the Lazaretto Gate that was built by the Venetians for Candia on Crete.
After being used for storage by the British it was restored in the 1980s, breathing new life in to the Tahl-el-Kale neighbourhood around it.
