• Enjoying a drink in the Büyük Han, the most beautiful building from Ottoman times in Cyprus
• Visiting the Shacolas Museum in Ledra Street to see Nicosia from above

The population of Levkosia (Cyprus' capital) reaches around twenty thousand, which is difficult to determine since the women are not counted. The majority of the inhabitants are Turks, although the Greeks may almost equal them, then a small number of Armenians.

Catholics there are only 80-90; no Jews at all. The Turks of Levkosia often have upturned eyebrows, a wide slit mouth, often large, chestnut-brown, long-lashed eyes, and their hair is shaved according to Turkish custom.

They usually wear a sea-green shirt, which dresses them up very nicely, and they are always characterized by their white trousers and brightly colored dresses. The women always wear dazzling white dresses when they go out, but underneath they are luxurious, often dressed in silk. The Armenian women dress in the same way, the Armenians alla franca (“Franconian”, i.e. European). The Greeks are pretty people, but mostly their noses are too big...

Archduke Ludwig Salvator of Austria

Traveller,  (1872/73)