Byzantine Museum (Archbishop Makarios III Foundation)
One of the finest collections of Byzantine icons in the world, housed beside the Archbishop's Palace in old Nicosia.
Photo: A.Savin / Wikimedia Commons, FAL
The museum of the Archbishop Makarios III Foundation displays hundreds of Cypriot icons from the 9th to the 19th century, tracing the island's own style of religious art.
It also shows works recovered after being looted from churches in the north after 1974, including fragments of the 6th-century apse mosaic of Panagia Kanakaria. The grand Archbishop's Palace and the frescoed Cathedral of St John stand next door.
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Allow about an hour. Combine it with the Cathedral of St John and the Folk Art Museum in the same square.
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