It is, after all, well known that between 1960 and 1974, the city was a world-famous tourist resort, due to its golden sandy beach, while it was the most developed part of the island and the central cultural pole, with many festivals and events. Emotions were strong and mixed, especially among the first and second generation refugees, after some of them, shocked, saw again up close, after many years their enslaved city, the place where they lived the first years of their lives, where they were born, played, went to school and the older ones fell in love and got married. Within the strongest medieval walls of the city, the ruins of many other monuments, including numerous churches, are preserved in good condition. /strong>specimens of various types of architecture. First, we visited the today ruined church of Agios Georgios Latinos,which is an excellent example of Gothic architecture. Then we went to the Church of Saint George of the Hellenes, the largest Orthodox church of the Frankish period in Cyprus, which combines the Gothic basilica with the Byzantine dome and with the characteristic fact that the volleys from the firearms from the Ottoman siege can still be seen on its walls.
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