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The castle of Limassol is a medieval building in the city of Limassol in Cyprus.
The castle took his current form 1590 roughly, at the period of Ottoman domination and chtistike on previous castle of much bigger dimensions. The ancienter report on the castle of our Lemesoy comes from 1128 when Freiderikos B' of Germany jailed there hostages from the regent of Cyprus Ibelino. This report constitutes serious clue that in the space existed a Byzantine building even if was not found some archaeological discovery that would support this place. However in stromatografiki structure that became from the Department of Antiquities were found bases of colonnade that anikan in palaiochristianiki royal that were perhaps found in the place of castle and constituted part of this Byzantine building. Turkish initial used him as prison, use that it maintained also at the English domination until 1948, when functioned the central prisons in Nicosia, therefore passed in the jurisdiction of Archaeological service and entertained the first provincial archaeological museum. Today it functions as medieval museum. According to the delivery here nymfeytike Richardos Leontokardos the love of Vereggaria.
Opening Hours:
- Monday: 09:00am - 17:00pm (Lunch 13:00-16:00)
- Tuesday09:00am - 17:00pm (Lunch 13:00-16:00)
- Wednesday: 09:00am - 17:00pm (Lunch 13:00-16:00)
- Thursday: 09:00am - 17:00pm (Lunch 13:00-16:00)
- Friday: 09:00am - 20:00pm (Lunch 13:00-16:00)
- Saturday: 09:00am - 17:00pm
- Sunday: 10:00am - 13:00pm
Adults 4,50 Euros
Ticket for one days - 8,50 Euros
Ticket for three days - 17,00 Euros
Ticket for seven days - 25,00 Euros (for groups of 10 people 20% discount)
Non accessible space for people moving Wheelchair wheelchair