Lapidary Museum.

What to see at Lapidary Museum

• Medieval carved stone shown in and around the house: capitals, gravestones, coats of arms and sarcophagi.
• A monumental Gothic window faces the main entrance; it is the only piece left of the Lusignan royal palace, saved when the palace was pulled down in 1901.
• Other pieces include the marble lion of St Mark, the Venetian emblem.

History of Lapidary Museum

Mid-15th century

The two-storey Venetian-style stone house is built in the courtyard of St Sophia Cathedral and lodges pilgrims and travellers.

1901

The British pull down the Lusignan palace; one Gothic window is saved.

2003

The collection gathered under George Jeffery is renewed and opens to visitors.

Visiting Lapidary Museum

Allow about half an hour. The museum lies inside the walled city of Lefkoşa, east of the Selimiye Mosque. A car park is mapped about 50 m away, and intercity buses stop at Kyrenia Gate (Girne Kapısı), about 650 m on foot.

Monuments near Lapidary Museum

• Saçaklı Evabout 50 m south-westAn Ottoman courtyard house named after the deep eaves of its projecting room.
• Selimiye Mosqueabout 100 m westThe Gothic cathedral of Lefkoşa, a mosque since 1570, with two minarets.
• Bedestenabout 150 m south-westA church that grew over a thousand years and became an Ottoman covered market.