Photograph·matpc.21884

St Hilarion Castle, Kyrenia: looking east from the castle

A seated man in an arched stone opening at St Hilarion, looking out towards a rocky hill and scrub
Photograph: 1945. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, matpc.21884. Public domain.

Description

A man in shorts and boots sits on a low stone wall in the foreground, facing left, with his back against the pointed arch of a ruined stone building. Beyond the arch, a bare hill rises above a line of shrubs and bushes, and the sky is pale and largely empty. The ground in front of the wall is bare and dusty.

English

A man sits on a low stone wall inside a pointed stone archway at St Hilarion Castle, Kyrenia. Through the arch, a rocky hill and shrubs are visible under a pale sky.

The Library of Congress's title

Cyprus. Kyoenia. St. Hilarion. Looking east from castle

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