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Photograph·8_PV_2862·1929–1974

Vounous: Abbey of Bellapaïs

Vounous: Abbey of Bellapaïs
Photograph: Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer. Collège de France, Fonds Claude Schaeffer, 8_PV_2862. "Vounous: Abbey of Bellapaïs". CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Resized.

English, translated from the French record

Glass negative in gelatin silver bromide, 8.5 × 10 cm, by Claude Schaeffer, showing the Abbey of Bellapaïs at Vounous in Cyprus. The subject is a church.

The Collège de France's catalogue entry (French)

Vounous : Abbaye de Bellapaïs

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