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Smaller monuments, for the visitor who has time. 24 monuments.

  1. AkkuleAkkule · GazimağusaA small Ottoman mescit of 1618–19 by Famagusta's Land Gate.
  2. Church of AntiphonitisAntifonitis Kilisesi · GirneA domed Byzantine church in the forest, stripped of most of its frescoes.
  3. Apostolos Andreas MonasteryApostolos Andreas Manastırı · İskeleThe great pilgrimage monastery at the tip of the Karpaz.
  4. Agia Trias BasilicaAy. Trias Bazilikası · İskeleAn early Christian basilica with a restored mosaic floor.
  5. Museum of BarbarismBarbarlık Müzesi · LefkoşaThe house where a family was killed in December 1963, kept as a memorial.
  6. Peace and Freedom MuseumBarış ve Özgürlük Müzesi · GirneA military museum at the 1974 landing point near Alsancak.
  7. Derviş Paşa MansionDerviş Paşa Konağı · LefkoşaAn Ottoman town house in North Nicosia, kept as an ethnographic museum.
  8. EnkomiEngomi Harabeleri · GazimağusaA Bronze Age copper-trading city, widely identified with Alasia.
  9. Güzelyurt Railway MuseumGüzelyurt Tren İstasyonu Müzesi · GüzelyurtA goods warehouse of the island's lost railway.
  10. Carob Warehouse and Cyprus House MuseumHarup Ambarı ve Kıbrıs Evi Müzesi · GirneA folk-life museum in an old carob warehouse by Kyrenia harbour.
  11. İskele Archaeology Museumİskele Arkeoloji Müzesi · İskeleFinds from eight periods, in a museum opened in 2018.
  12. Kantara CastleKantara Kalesi · İskeleThe easternmost castle of the range, above both coasts.
  13. Kumarcılar HanKumarcılar Hanı · LefkoşaThe smaller inn opposite Büyük Han, restored in 2018.
  14. Lefke Mining MuseumLefke Maden Müzesi · GüzelyurtThe story of Lefke's copper mines, in the former Vasıf Palas.
  15. Kyrenia Gate and the Nicosia wallsLefkoşa Surları / Girne Kapısı · LefkoşaThe best-preserved gate of Nicosia's Venetian walls.
  16. Lusignan HouseLüzinyan Evi · LefkoşaA 15th-century noble town house in North Nicosia.
  17. Mavi KöşkMavi Köşk · GirneA 1957 villa preserved as it was left in the 1970s.Inside a military area. Check the current visiting arrangements before going.
  18. Mevlevi TekkeMevlevi Tekkesi · LefkoşaThe lodge of the whirling dervishes of Cyprus, by the Kyrenia Gate.
  19. National Struggle MuseumMilli Mücadele Müzesi · LefkoşaThe Turkish Cypriot account of the conflict, from the late 19th century to 1974.
  20. Namık Kemal DungeonNamık Kemal Zindanı · GazimağusaThe cell where the Ottoman poet Namık Kemal was exiled, 1873–76.
  21. Panagia ApsinthiotissaPanagia Apsinthiotissa · GirneA Byzantine monastery ruin on the southern flank of the range.
  22. Lapidary MuseumTaş Eserler Müzesi · LefkoşaMedieval carved stone in a Venetian-Gothic house.
  23. Taşkent Martyrs' Memorial and MuseumTaşkent Şehitliği ve Müzesi · GirneA memorial and museum at Taşkent, completed in 2014.
  24. Vouni PalaceVuni Sarayı · GüzelyurtA hilltop palace of the fifth century BC above Morphou Bay.