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Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Painted Churches in the Troodos Region, Mount Olympus (Cyprus) and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Cyprus and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Building in Famagusta, Cyprus
Famagusta's biggest medieval building, in Cyprus. It began as a cathedral dedicated to Saint Nicholas and was later turned into a mosque, the “Saint Sophia (Ayasofya) Mosque of Mağusa”.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL
World Heritage
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Troodos Mountains, Cyprus
A UNESCO World Heritage Site of painted churches in central Cyprus, in the Troödos Mountains.
Photo: Unbekannte Künstler zwischen 1200 und 1400, Public domain
Highest mountain in Cyprus
Also called Chionistra, the highest point of Cyprus, 1,952 metres (6,404 ft) high, in the island's Troodos Mountains.
Photo: Paul167, CC BY-SA 2.5
Gothic-style mosque in Northern Cyprus
Known in the past as the Cathedral of Saint Sophia or Ayasofya Mosque, a one-time Christian cathedral in North Nicosia turned into a mosque. Historically it has been the chief mosque of Cyprus.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL
Tekke in Larnaca, Cyprus
A mosque and takya in Larnaca, Cyprus, on the western shore of Larnaca Salt Lake. It honours Umm Haram, called Hala Sultan in Turkish tradition. She was married to Ubada bin al-Samit, one of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's companions, and was a foster sister of Amina, Muhammad's mother.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL
Landform on the island of Cyprus
A wide, sweeping plain forming the north-central part of Cyprus.
Photo: George Groutas Camera location 35° 10′ 27.84″ N, 33° 45′ 25.95″ E View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap…, CC BY 2.0
Archaeological museum in Nicosia, Cyprus
Also called the Cyprus Archaeological Museum, the island's largest and oldest archaeological museum, on Museum Street in the centre of Nicosia.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL
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Church in Larnaca, Cyprus
A church in Larnaca, Cyprus, from the late 9th century, belonging to the Church of Cyprus, an autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church.
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0
Castle in Cyprus
A castle in Cyprus's Kyrenia Mountains, placed to command the pass road between Kyrenia and Nicosia.
Photo: Dickelbers, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sea stack in Paphos, Cyprus
Also called Aphrodite's Rock, a sea stack off the shore of Paphos, Cyprus, beside the main road between Paphos and Limassol.
Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0
Officially the Republic of Cyprus, an island country in the eastern Mediterranean, off the Levant coast in West Asia. The island ranks third in the Mediterranean both in size and in population. The United Nations Buffer Zone splits it between the Republic of Cyprus, which is recognised internationally, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognised by Turkey alone. Akrotiri and Dhekelia, British sovereign military bases, lie in the island's south.
Officially The Republic of Cyprus. Known locally as Κύπρος Kıbrıs.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, Painted Churches in the Troodos Region, Mount Olympus (Cyprus) and Selimiye Mosque, Nicosia and others. Painted Churches in the Troodos Region is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Cyprus that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Painted Churches in the Troodos Region. That is not the full count for Cyprus, only the listed sites that made this guide.
Greek, Turkish. The currency is EUR.
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