Here, the Venetians had erected a huge revolving wheel spiked with knives, on to which Turks were tossed as they scaled the walls, until the gully below was choked with dismembered bodies. Canbulat rushed at the wheel, and deliberately impaled himself and his horse on the huge grinding knife, thereby putting it out of action. His fellow soldiers were thus able to breach the defences.Today the tower holds his tomb and has been converted to a small museum. As a place of pilgrimage for Turks, this tower ranks second in Cyprus only to the shrine of Hala Sultan Tekke on the lake at Larnaca.the vaulted interior, with its huge long hall leading to the tower at the end, is in some ways more interesting than the exhibits. These include displays of guns, 17th-century Venetian plates. The attendant will give you the keys which enable you to climb the steps and get on the roof, though there is no access to the ramparts. If the attendant is unwilling or unable to produce these keys, think twice about bothering to visit the exhibits aren"t particularly stimulating.Othello"s Tower:From the Canbulat Tower you now continue alng the dockside, passing the Sea Gate on the way to Othello"s Tower. The Sea Gate was, along with the Land Gate, one of the two original gates of the walled city, and was built by the Venetians in 1946. the side that faces the horbour has a magnificent archway surmounted by a Venetian lion in a white marble plaque. Since the gate is now closed, this is only visible from within the horbour itself. Beside the gate on the inside, towards the Desdemona Gardens, squats a handsome but eroded lion, carved out of a large stone block. Nearly opposite the Petek Pastanesi café has a pretty upstairs area for cakes and ice-cream.The emotively named Othello"s Tower is not just a tower ?t would be more aptly called Othello"s Castle, for it was built as a fort within a fort, a citadel to defend the entrance to the harbour. Its sea side now looks directly on to the quayside of the modern port, out of bounds to all but port traffic. In the pre-1974days, when cruise ships and passenger ferries called at Famagusta, this citadel was the first thing that would have confronted visitors as the ship docked. Today, the ferries only come from Syria and Turkey.The entrance to the tower days is from just inside the walls, through the gateway crowned by the white marble Venetian lion. The moat was drained of water on British instructions in 1900, because of the risk of malaria. Beside the gate is a simple restaurants, attractively set in green gardens with a playground. Opposite is the heavily ruined shell of St George of the Latins, a fortified 13th-century church, the earliest church in the town. A little to the north, just inside the walls, is a football field marked on old maps of the 1960s as the Turkish polo field, Djirit.The tower has an entry fee and it takes a good 20 minutes to have a proper look round inside, longer, if you enjoy the fun of re-enacting Shakespeare. Scattered about in the open courtyard are old cannon. One, in Spanish bronze, is still rust-free and in good condition. The others are mainly Turkish, recognizable by the heavy iron rings round the barrel. In several places, the iron cannon balls can be seen in piles, along with some stone balls that were tossed by the giant catapults.Northern Cyprus Hotels Flanking the fine courtyard are the rooms of the citadel, regal in their proportions, especially the Great Hall or refectory, used in 1915 by Syrian refugees fleeing from the Ottoman Turks.From Act II onwards, the setting is " A seaport in Cyprus". Scene 3 of Act II takes place in "a hall in the castle", which must be the Great Hall or Refectory, where much revelry and drinking was ordered by Othello"s herald. The tower was named Othello"s Tower by the British during the colonial period.