Limassol Castle

The medieval Limassol Castle is situated near to the old harbor in the core of the authentic focal point of the city of Limassol. The palace as it shows up today is a structure reconstructed around 1590 under the time of Ottoman run the show. Archeological examination inside the palace uncovered that it was worked over an Early Christian basilica and a Middle Byzantine landmark. Different finds underneath the Castle witness the presence of a vital church, perhaps the city's first house of God.

According to Etienne Lusignan, the first chateau was raised by Guy de Lusignan in 1193. The main authority reference to the fortification dates to 1228, amid the inclusion of Frederic II of Germany in the undertakings of Cyprus. From its erection until the start of the sixteenth century, harms were caused by the consistent assaults of the town by the Genoese and the Mameluks and additionally by seismic tremors rotating with rebuilding efforts and recreations.

In 1538 the Ottomans caught Limassol and the palace. The Venetian legislative leader of Cyprus, in the wake of recovering the palace, chose to decimate it to maintain a strategic distance from its conceivable seizure. This annihilation was finished in 1567– 68. After the Ottoman obtaining of Cyprus in 1576, the remaining parts or parts of the remaining parts of the mansion were joined in the new Ottoman stronghold, finished in 1590, which was impressively reinforced.