Photograph·matpc.21882

Hill of St Hilarion Castle, Kyrenia, closer view

Rocky hill seen through a tree's branches, with scrubland and a small pool in the foreground
Photograph: 1945. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, matpc.21882. Public domain.

Description

A large tree trunk and leafy branches fill the left and top of the frame. Beyond a patch of scrub and a small dark pool, a rocky peak rises against a pale sky, with lower hills and bushes spread along its slopes to the right.

English

A closer view of the hill on which St Hilarion Castle stands: a rocky hill rising above scrubland and a small pool, framed by the trunk and branches of a tree in the foreground.

The Library of Congress's title

Cyprus. Kyoenia. Hill on top of which is St. Hilarion Castle. Closer view

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