Two hundred meters from the old port at the southern tip of the Palm tree promenade is the fortress. Once this place was a Byzantine fortifications, and in the chapel in 1191 was crowned English king Richard the Lionheart and Berengaria of Navarre. The current fortress was built in the early fourteenth century during the Lusignan. It was rebuilt in 1570 the Turks invaded the island. In the middle of the last century, the fortress was reconstructed by the British, under which, since 1940, she was used as a prison and army headquarters. In 1974 moved to the fortress exhibits the Nicosia Museum of the middle ages, the building which was in the buffer zone separating Greek and Turkish. I can add description