[1878_4] Famagusta, the "Porta del Mare" (Sea gate)

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
20/11/2010 23:49

Two beauties from my collection today... Click the URL and you are back in time: [ http://is.gd/huVSx ]!

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
21/11/2010 00:24

Overview of the most recent updates (Text and pictures) here: [ http://is.gd/gctxf ].

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
21/11/2010 11:33

I've uploaded more old pictures of Famagusta, the best harbour in Cyprus and its central point: the Sea gate or "Porta del Mare" (the Venetian name). Start here: [ http://is.gd/huVSx ] and click a MORE button to go to the next page with photographs.

ianwfs


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Message Posted:
21/11/2010 12:13

Hans, you have your "more" and "home" links the wrong way round, but when I got there, I enjoyed the photos. The second lot of photos are interesting, as you can see how much land has been reclaimed for the modern port.

The first photo, of the sea gate, is a view from the port side, so unfortunately, the closest most people might get to it is a view from the top of Othello's tower. A shame, as the port side is much more interesting than the land side. (Apart, perhaps, from the lion that briefly opens its mouth once a year to allow anybody that happens to be around to claim the treasure stored in its stomach!)

As an aside, the garden area there was the end of the Famagusta railway, and to get there, the town walls were breached. Do you have any information on that, and the route the line took from the Main station which was about 500 yards down the road opposite the Land Gate?

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
21/11/2010 14:01

Thanks, Ian, I had seen the problem, but couldn't solve it right away.

Re: Famagusta Railway: I have not paid much attention to this railway, only saw the last remains in several places between Famagusta and the copper mines (near Lefke in thw West). I knew the Famagusta walls were breached by the British - you probably mean near the former jousting yard, now a soccer field - and between the Del Mezzo bastion and the Diamantino bastion? Btw: I've never found any train rails inside the Walled City.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
21/11/2010 18:51

Fantastic Photos.

Clarissa2


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Message Posted:
21/11/2010 20:21

Re : Msg 4&5,



I found these pictures and info about the railway to be rather interesting too:





http://davidheyscollectionextra.com/page17.htm

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
21/11/2010 20:42

Clarissa2: Thanks for the link!

cemaliye7a


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Message Posted:
22/11/2010 11:13

Thank you very much for sharing valuable info on this forum..



Regards

DutchCrusader



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Message Posted:
22/11/2010 11:24

RE msg 9, cemaliye7a: Thank YOU for your interest and kind comment!

richb


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Message Posted:
22/11/2010 13:45

Hi Hans



My wife Karen and daughter Elle, would like to thank you for the great tour of Famagusta they did with you on Friday.





Rich

famagusta99


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Message Posted:
23/11/2010 20:40

Dreghorn writes about this train, in his guide-book "Famagusta and Salamis".



The whole guide-book is now online (copyrigh-vio??) here:

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/famagusta.html



The train-section is here:

http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~durduran/drfm1.html#train