Famagusta Gate

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 development, in the Venetian style has been replicated from the renowned Lazaretto Gate of Candia planned by Michael Sammicheli toward the start of the sixteenth century, and comprises of a vaulted entry through the earthwork bulwark of the city with a precisely executed circular arch, eleven meters in distance across, in its inside.

The path is sufficiently expansive for two vehicles to pass, and it is lit by a round opening in the focal point of the vault in the style of the Pantheon, Rome. On either side of this entry have all the earmarks of being passageways into chambers presently obstructed. The outer entryway of the Porta Giuliana is a little passage in the reappearing point or "orecchione" of the Caraffa bastion presently fairly harmed by breakage of the curve stones, and the antiquated entryways, and so forth., are absent. On the internal side of the entryway, confronting the town, is a forcing veneer. The door was worked in 1567 by Venetians, as a piece of the new city dividers and was initially called the Porta Giuliani after its planner.