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CYPRUS 1933 Old Tuck's Postcard Famagusta St. Sophia Cathedral (Now Mosque) Palm

Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons' Photogravure Postcard
Series No: 13
Background: The Famagusta Gate is a gate in the Nicosia walls, Cyprus. It is the chief gate of the city : the Porta Giuliana, or " di sotto " of Fra Stefano Lusignano's " Chorograffia," known as Famagusta Gate in modern times. This construction, in the Venetian style has been copied from the famous Lazaretto Gate of Candia designed by Michael Sammicheli at the beginning of the 16th century.

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