Medieval Museum of Limassol is located in the town fortress - the famous castle of Limassol. It is not far from the old harbor in the historic center of the city.

According to studies, the fortress itself was built on the site of an ancient Byzantine castle where King Richard the Lionheart is thought to have married Berengaria of Navarre. On the history of the new lock is known not so much. Supposedly it was built in the era of the Lusignan about the end of X century. Later, in the XVI century, the fortress was completely destroyed as a result of one of the earthquakes. The Turks managed to recover it, but the size of the strengthening of steel is much less - from the original fort was only a couple of rooms of the ground floor.

The basis of the museum's collection, located in the fortress became part of the museum of Cyprus devoted to the Middle Ages. Later, she has become replenished with new exhibits, collected in different cities of Cyprus, including Nicosia.

So, now in the museum are stored objects, which greatly exceeded the time frame originally selected period - the exhibits date from the III-XVIII centuries BC This weapon, glassware and ceramics, clothing, coins, lamps, jewelry, ornaments, tools and implements, objects of worship, as well as fragments and debris of buildings Byzantine times, including fragments of wall paintings, executed in the sgraffito.

Particular attention is visiting the Museum of the Middle Ages is paid to the tombstones brought from the ancient temples of Nicosia and Famagusta.