Keeping on this westward course, you will come after some 300-400m to a car park, across which, in the distance, behind a fence, rises the belltower of the loveky Armenian church, held up by scaffolding, it"s on the verge of collapse, and perhaps because of its perilous position, nobody seems to be in a hurry to do anything about it.It was originally a Benedictine convent and the walls conceal an unfinished Gothic cloister. The abbess in the 14th century was involved, so the story goes, in an intrigue to murder the regent, the prince of Tyre, and was accused of sheltering the assassin. Soldiers broke down the gates and threatened the holy sisters with death and dishonour. The abbess appealed to the papal legate for protection, and she and her nuns were finally spared.The convent was much altered and repaired over the centuries, and was in use as a salt store when the Turks gave it to the Armenians. The area here around the Paphos Gate had long been the Armenian quarter.Behind the Armenian church and just on the Greek side of the Green Line is the Roman Catholic church, recognisable by its distinctive spire. A walk down this street is to be recommended for the succession of lovely houses it offers. Aptly named Victoria Street, the houses were built from the time of the British occupation in 1878, and their distinctive features are the curved ironwork balconies above their huge doorways. Number 73 Victoria Street is a good example, built in 1923. continuing south, you can walk down the street towards the Green Line until you notice the soldier twitching his rifle, at which point it is best to turn back. There"s also the splendid Boghialian Konak Restaurant.
North Cyprus Hotels The Green Line is in fact a somewhat euphemistic description of the barrier of bricks, barbed wire and corrugated iron that divides the old city into two roughly equal halves, abruptly bisecting streets that used to run straight on, rudely separating houses that were once neighbours. In the suburbs of Lefko?a, it is extended by the Red Line, becoming the Attila Line once out of the city. Within the old city, the Green Line has now become something of a tourist attraction, with German tour groups especially seeing in it shades of the former Berlin Wall, and being conducted to view it from several places on the north.