Limassol castle
   Photo: Limassol castle
  Two hundred meters from the old port at the southern tip of Palm Tree Promenade is a fortress. Once upon a time this place was Byzantine fortifications, and in the chapel in 1191 married the English King Richard the Lionheart and Berengaria of Navarre. Existing today fortress built at the beginning of the XIV century. at Lusignan. It was rebuilt in 1570 the Turks seized the island. In the middle of the last century English castle was reconstructed, under which, since 1940, it was used as a prison and army headquarters. In 1974 he moved into the castle exhibits Nicosia Museum of the Middle Ages, the building which turned out to be in the buffer zone separating the Greek and Turkish.   I can complement the description