The Grand Turkish Bath or Buyuk Hamam was built on the remains of an old Latin church and still functions today.
It is evident from its ornamented Gothic style arched doorway and its stone walls that it was built in the Lusignan period
when it was St George of the Latins.
The Great Inn or Buyuk Han is the most noteworthy of the Turkish monuments in Nicosia from a historical and architectural
perspective. Built in 1572, as a merchants inn or caravanserai, the building is rectangular, has two storeys and in the large
courtyard is a small arched and domed mosque. The rooms of the Great Inn now house two cafes and a number of art and craft
shops
The Gamblers Inn or Kumarcilar Han is an Ottoman merchants inn constructed towards the end of the 17th century.
The Inn is built in a rectangular design and has two storeys but, unlike the Great Inn, has no mosque. Travellers would stay
in the rooms on the upper floor and their animals and belongings would be kept in the rooms on the ground floor.
The Arab Ahmet Mosque is the most notable of the mosques built by the Turks in Nicosia. The mosque, like many
others, was constructed on the site of an old Latin church and is a good example of classical Turkish mosque architecture.
It has an arched terrace and a dome six metres in diameter. It is a special corner of Nicosia with its fountain, cypress trees
and graves which are well preserved. Among the graves is that of Kamil Pasha, born in 1832 in Nicosia, who rose to the rank
of Grand Vizier in the Ottoman Empire before dying in the city in 1913.
The Nicosia City Walls that you see today were begun In 1567 by the Venetians to replace the old Lusignan walls
ringing the city. They have a circumference nearly of three miles, eleven bastions (each like a small castle) and three gates.
The Venetians demolished the houses, palaces, monasteries and churches outside the city old walls and used the stone in the
construction of the new walls. However, the Venetians were defeated by the Ottomans before they had time to finish the construction
of the walls.