Photograph·CO 1069-694-7·1900–10
Famagusta, from the Armoury
Description
Roofless stone walls with pointed window openings and a tall chimney-like stack rise from rubble and scrub in the foreground. Behind them, the flat ground holds more broken walls and a larger ruined building with a tower on the left, under an almost empty pale sky.
English
A view across the ruined town of Famagusta from the Armoury, with the broken walls of a large stone building in the foreground and ruined buildings spreading across the flat ground behind.
The National Archives' description
Famagusta. From the Armoury
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