By Chris Krzentz……..
Following a trip by car with my dear friend, Tuncer Bagiskan, the Turkish Cypriot retired archaeologist, when we visited the Lapithos (Lapta) to Karavas (Alsancak) areas to discover Cyprus Heritage, we returned to visit Karavas to visit the ruins of the old mill up in the hills as you will see in the 10 minute video below.
Walking up to the old mill (Milos) is by a track which has an abundance of vegetation on the left hand side and on the right we can look down at some splendid views onto the outskirts of the village below.
On entering the old mill, Tuncer Bagiskan explained the the mill was used to grind wheat into flour and we saw the two round grinding stones which had been used to create the flour from wheat. Power to turn the stones was generated from water held in a water tower further up the hill which then ran in a channel down to the mill to turn the mechanism that turned the stones.
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This journey through this ancient part of the city was made on the 29th October 2015 and we starting walking past Ottoman buildings on the right with modern days shops and apartments above them on the left.
play which promoted nationalism and liberalism which led to his exile to Cyprus and the current building contains a museum about Namik Kemal.
what had once been an Armenian social club but is now the Lefkosa Cultural Centre and then as we walked on passing the Armenian Church and Monastery on the right hand side, which I had visited with some Armenian friends on a previous visit, and I will tell you more of this visit later in this article.
enter it and like so many places like this, you just feel as one with yourself. During our tour you will hear in the video Tuncer explaining about so many fascinating features of the building and its history when it was converted by the Ottomans into a mosque.
has a high melting point and so can easily be fried or grilled and tastes delicious.
anity and she then showed us a number of paintings and described what she is trying to say though her paintings.
formal art education she started to sculpture in clay and she showed us a lifelike figure of an elderly Cypriot lady sitting at a garden table. So lifelike was it that when I first arrived in the garden I noticed the figure and called out hello thinking it was a real person.