Photograph·CO 1069-706-27·1950–59

St Hilarion Castle, Kyrenia

Ruined walls and towers on a rocky peak against a pale sky
Photograph: 1950–59. The National Archives, CO 1069/706. No known copyright restrictions. Resized.

Description

The photograph is mounted on a black album page, with a second print above it. In this print a steep, jagged rocky peak rises at the centre, its slopes broken by ruined stone walls and towers. Low walls and scrubby bushes stand in the stony foreground under a pale sky.

English

Ruined walls and towers climb a rocky peak at St Hilarion Castle, Kyrenia, against a pale sky, with scrub in the stony foreground. With another photograph on the same page.

The National Archives' description

St. Hilarion Castle, Kyrenia

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