Buffavento Castle Kyrenia North Cyprus Aerial Filming
DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Flight over Buffavento Castle, Kyrenia, North Cyprus..
15th February 2017..
Buffavento Castle is in the Kyrenia mountain range, in Northern Cyprus. Its name is Italian and means “Defier of the Winds”, reflecting that the winds at its location at 950 metres (3,120 ft) above sea level can reach quite a high velocity. The castle is irregular in shape as it makes use of the mountain itself for its defense. Since 1974 the castle is within the occupied side of the island.
Buffavento stands between St. Hilarion Castle to the west and Kantara Castle to the east, all of which were built as a defense against Arab raids. As both of the other castles are visible from Buffavento, it was used to pass signals between them. It also controlled an important pass through the mountains. It was used as a prison in the 14th century.
The lowest part of the castle was probably built by the Byzantines in the 11th century. The Lusignans expanded the castle in the 14th century. During the Venetian control of the island, Buffavento fell into disuse as the Venetians saw the coastal castles of Cyprus, such as Kyrenia and Famagusta, as more important.
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Saint Hilarion Castle - Kyrenia (Northern Cyprus)
The Saint Hilarion Castle lies on the Kyrenia mountain range, in Cyprus near Kyrenia (Girne). This location provided the castle with command of the pass road from Kyrenia to Nicosia. It is the best preserved ruin of the three former strongholds in the Kyrenia mountains, the others being Kantara and Buffavento.
Saint Hilarion was originally a monastery, named after a monk who allegedly chose the site for his hermitage, with a monastery and a church built there in the 10th century. Starting in the 11th century, the Byzantines began fortification. Saint Hilarion formed the defense of the island with the castles of Buffavento and Kantara against Arab pirates raiding the coast. Some sections were further upgraded under the Lusignan rule, who may have used it as a summer residence. During the rule of Lusignans, the castle was the focus of a four-year struggle between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Regent John d' Ibelin for control of Cyprus.
The castle has three divisions or wards. The lower and middle wards served economic purposes, while the upper ward housed the royal family. The lower ward had the stables and the living quarters for the men-at-arms. The Prince John tower sits on a cliff high above the lower castle. The church lies on the middle ward. The upper ward was reserved for the Royals and can be entered via a well-preserved archway. Farm buildings are located in the west close to the royal apartments. Along the western wall, there is a scenic view of the northern coast of Cyprus, overlooking the city of Kyrenia (Girne), from the Queen's Window.
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Buffavento Castle, North Cyprus
Buffavento Castle is located in the Kyrenia mountain range, in the north of Cyprus. Its name is Italian and means, “Defier of the Winds”, reflecting that the winds at its location at 950 metres above sea level can reach quite a high velocity.
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Bellapais Monastery Kyrenia North Cyprus Aerial Filming
DJI Phantom 3 Advanced Flight over Bellapais Monastery, Kyrenia, North Cyprus..
15th February 2017..
Bellapais Abbey, or the Abbey of Peace (from French: Abbaye de la Belle Paix), is the ruin of a monastery built by Canons Regular in the 13th century on the northern side of the small village of Bellapais, now in Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus, about five kilometers from the town of Kyrenia. The ruin is at an altitude of 220m above sea level, and commands a long view down to Kyrenia and the Mediterranean sea.
The site of the Abbey may have served the Bishops of Kyrenia as a residence, and as a place of refuge from Arab raids in the 7th and 8th centuries. The first occupants known to have settled on or near the site were the Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, who had fled Jerusalem after its fall in 1187 to Saladin. The canons had been the custodians of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Aimery de Lusignan founded the monastery, with the first buildings dating to between 1198-1205. The abbey was consecrated as the Abbey of St. Mary of the Mountain. The White Canons (Norbertines or Premonstratensians) succeeded the founding canons in 1206. Consequently, documents from the 15th and 16th century refer to Bellapais as the White Abbey.
The main building as it can be seen today was built during the rule of King Hugh III 1267-1284. The cloisters and the refectory were constructed during the rule of King Hugh IV between 1324-1359. Hugh IV lived in the abbey and had apartments constructed for his use.
In 1373, the Genoese raided Kyrenia, almost destroying Kyrenia Castle. The Genoese stripped Bellapais of anything that was portable and of any value.
By 1489 the Venetians had taken control of Cyprus. They shortened the Abbey's name to De la Pais (Of Peace), which in turn became Bellapais. By the time of the Venetians, the inhabitants of the Abbey had abandoned the Premonstratensian Rule. Reportedly, canons took wives, and then to keep the business within the family, accepted only their children as novices.
Following the Ottoman conquest of Kyrenia and Kyrenia Castle in 1571, the Ottomans expelled the Premonstratensians and gave the abbey to the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, which they appointed as the only legal Christian church on Cyprus. The Church of Cyprus neglected the Abbey, which fell into disrepair. However, the abbey church itself came to serve as the parish church for the village that grew up around it, and whose inhabitants may have used the abbey as a quarry for stone.
During the period of British control of Cyprus (1878-1960), the British Army initially took control of Bellapais. In 1878 they cemented the floor of the refectory, which they then used as a hospital. Unfortunately, the soldiers also fired off small arms in the refectory; one may still see bullet holes in the east wall. Then in 1912 George Jeffery, Curator of the Ancient Monuments of Cyprus, undertook repairs of the abbey.
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Buffavento Castle - North Cyprus - Pentax K-5 - Sigma 8-16mm lens
Buffavento Castle is one of three magnificent castles, built high in the Kyrenia mountains of North Cyprus. Like the castles of St Hilarion and Kantara, Buffavento Castle is quite an imposing sight, perched on a rocky hilltop 950 metres above sea level. No wonder it's name, Buffavento, means Gusty Winds, although some prefer the more romantic translation of Defiant of Winds!
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St. Hilarion Kalesi Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs (St. Hilarion Castle - Kyrenia - North Cyprus)
Girne'deki kalelerin duvarlarında, geçip giden tarihi hissetmemek mümkün değildir. Beşparmak Dağları'nın kuzey eteklerinde inşaa edilmiş St. Hilarion Kalesi'nin burçlarından Girne'nin müthiş manzaralarını kuşbakışı seyredebilirsiniz.
Girne'ye 10 km uzaklıkta olan St. Hilarion Kalesi'ne çıkan yol düzgün ve güvenilir olmamakla birlikte 700 mt yükseklikte bulunan 480 basamak tırmanılarak kaleye ulaşıldığında insanı büyüleyen bir mutluluk verir.
Kalenin batısında Karaman ve Lapta köyleri, ufukta Korcamit Burnu bulunmaktadır. Bir harita gibi çizilmiş zeytin ağaçlarından sınırları olan tarlalar, dağların yamaçlarından Akdeniz'in mavi sularına kadar uzanan alanda gözümüze ilk çarpan muhteşem görüntüler arasındadır. Yazın alçak kesimlerde görülen kuru sıcak hava, St. Hilarion'a doğru çıkıldığında yerini serin bir rüzgara bırakır.
İkiz bir burun üzerine inşaa edilmiş St. Hilarion Kalesi'nin ismine tarihte 1191 yılında rastlanmıştır. Kale, burada ikamet eden Filistinli St. Hilarion'ı ziyarete gelenlerin artması ile manastıra dönüştürülmüş ve ismini bu azizden almıştır. Bugün kalede, eski manastır kilisesinden kalan bazı kalıntılara rastlamak mümkündür.
Manastır, 11. Yüzyılda Türklere karşı korunmak için sağlamlaştırılmıştır. Kıbrıs Adası'nı ve kalelerini bir süre Arslan Yürekli Richard kontrol etmiş 1191 yılında St. Hilarion Kalesini Guy de Lusignan'a teslim etmiştir. Bu dönemde savaşların önemli noktası haline gelen kale, Kıbrıs adasının bağımsızlığı yolunda etkili bir rölü olmuştur.
St. Hilarion Kalesi komutan odası
140 savaşsız geçen yıl içinde kalede yenilikler yapılmış ve Lüzinyanlı asillerin dinlenme yeri olarak kullanılmıştır.
St. Hilarion Kalesinin yeniden savaşla tanışması 1373 yılında olmuştur. Antakya Prensi John, burada Cenevizliler'e karşı savaştı. Venedikliler'in 1489 yılında adaya gelmeleri ile kale eski önemini yitirdi.
St. Hilarion Kalesinde üç ayrı bölüm bulunmaktadır: Kalenin üst bölümü, üzerinde bulunduğu tepenin iki uçlu olması nedeniyle Dydimus (ikizler) olarak bilinmektedir. Orta giriş bölümünde Lüzinyan kapısı yer almakta, burada açılıp kapanan bir köprü bulunmaktadır. Köprünün sağında bugün kubbesi olmayan bir kilise yer almaktadır. En alt bölümünde ise askerler, atlar ve diğer malzemelerin bulunduğu yerler vardır. Doğuda soylu kesim yer alır, batıda ise gündelik odalar bulunmaktadır.
Uygarlıkların egemenliği sırasında yaşanan hareketlilikle, bugün Beşparmak Dağları'nın üzerindeki durgunluğu çelişki oluştursa da, doğayla başbaşa kalan kale, hala insanı etkileyecek bir büyüye sahiptir.
Girne-Lefkoşa karayolunun Boğaz bölgesinden dağ yolunu kullanarak kaleye ulaşabilirisiniz. Yazın 09.00-16.30 kışın ise 09.00-16.00 arasında ziyarete açıktır.
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Bellapais Manastırı
St. Hilarion Kalesi Girne Kuzey Kıbrıs
Karaoğlanoğlu Şehitliği Girne
Mavi Köşk ( Kaçakçının Köşkü )
Lala Mustafa Paşa Cami ( St. Nicolas Katedrali )
St Barnabas Manastırı İkon ve Arkeoloji Müzesi
Kıbrıs Girne Kalesi ( Cyprus Kyrenia Castle )
Büyük Han - Lefkoşa / Kuzey Kıbrıs
Salamis Antik Kenti - Magosa / KKTC (Salamis - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus)
Kyrenia Castle - Kyrenia (Northern Cyprus)
Kyrenia Castle (Greek: Κάστρο της Κερύνειας Turkish: Girne Kalesi), at the east end of the old harbour in Kyrenia is a 16th-century castle built by the Venetians over a previous Crusader fortification. Within its walls lies a twelfth-century chapel showing reused late Roman capitals, and the Shipwreck Museum.
History:
Kyrenia has existed since the 10th century BC. Excavations have revealed Greek traces that date back to the 7th century BC, but the site was developed into a city under Roman rule.
Kyrenia Castle, view from the Old harbour
Research carried out at the site suggests that the Byzantines built the original castle in the 7th Century to guard the city against the new Arab maritime threat. The first historical reference to the castle occurs in 1191, when King Richard the Lionheart of England captured it on his way to the Third Crusade. He did so by defeating Isaac Comnenus, an upstart local governor who had proclaimed himself emperor.
After a short period, Richard sold the island to the Knights Templar, and then to his cousin Guy de Lusignan, the former king of Jerusalem. This began the 300 years of the Frankish Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus (1192–1489). Initially the castle was quite small. John d'Ibelin enlarged it between 1208 and 1211. The Castle's main function was military and the improvements consisted of a new entrance, square and horseshoe-shaped towers, embrasures for archers, and dungeons.
The castle was subjected to several sieges. A Genoese attack in 1373 almost destroyed the castle, and the longest amongst the sieges, in the 15th century, lasted nearly four years and reduced the unfortunate occupants to eating mice and rats. By 1489 the Venetians had taken control of Cyprus and in 1540 they enlarged the castle, giving it its present-day appearance. The chief changes, such as the addition of thick walls and embrasures for cannons, were adaptations to changes in warfare in the form of gunpowder artillery. The Venetians also installed gun ports at three levels so that they could direct cannon fire against attackers from the land. Inside the castle, they built huge long ramps so as to be able to drag artillery up on the walls. When the work on the castle was finished, its walls also encompassed the small church of St. George, which the Byzantines may have built in the 11th or 12th century.
Kyrenia Castle's courtyard
In 1570, Kyrenia surrendered to the Ottomans. The Ottomans too made changes to the castle, but the British removed these during their occupation. The castle contains the tomb of the Ottoman Admiral Sadik Pasha. The British used the castle as a police barracks and training school. They also used the castle as a prison for members of the Greek Cypriot EOKA organization.
The Kyrenia Department of Antiquities took over custodianship of the castle in 1950, though it reverted to British control during the EOKA turmoil. The Department regained control in 1959 and since 1960 the castle has been open to the public. However, during the period from 1963 to 1967 the Cypriot National Guard used the castle as a military headquarters. Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, in 1974 the Girne Department of Antiquities and Museums took over responsibility for the castle's preservation and use. The Department is keeping icons that were collected from churches in the Kyrenia area pre-1974 and has stored them in the castle's locked rooms for safekeeping. Some of these are now on display in the Archangel Michael Church.
St. Hilarion Castle - Kyrenia (Girne) , Cyprus
a pleasant walk among its ruins
one of the best sights in Northern Cyprus.
Buffavento Castle Cyprus/Buffavento Kalesi Kıbrıs / KKTC
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Amazing Castle Saint Hilarion in Cyprus Kyrenia | Kıbrıs Girne deki İnanılmaz Kale Dji Spark
I am so fascinated from Saint Hilarion Castle architecture also it has amazing view. If you visit to Cyprus i absolutely recommend to visit this place and look at nature from this point.
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Join Tima from Paradise LIVE on National Pink Day releasing balloons on top of the Kyrenia mountains, where St Hilarion Castle beautifully sits, enjoying natural beauty, scenic views and historical enchantment!
Buffavento Castle - North Cyprus
North Cyprus: Kantara Castle
North Cyprus: Kantara Castle
Bufavento Kalesi / Buffavento Castle
Bufavento Kalesi Girne'de Beşparmak Dağlarında bulunan italyanlarca Rüzgarlardan Korkmayan, Rüzgarlara Baş Eğmeyen anlamına gelen Buffavento ismini taşımaktadır.Deniz seviyesinden 950 Metre, 3.120 Feet yüksekliktedir.
Buffavento Castle is in the Kyrenia mountain range, in Northern Cyprus.Its name is Italian and means, “Defier of the Winds”, reflecting that the winds at its location at 950 metres (3,120 ft) above sea level can reach quite a high velocity.
Buffavento Castle aerial footage
Buffavento Castle shot from a drone.
Located in the Kyrenia mountain range, in the north of Cyprus, Kyrenia region.
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Buffavento Castle
Really really cool place. Hiking for a while, but its just awesome :)
Antiphonitis (Church of Christ Antiphonitis) - Northern Cyprus
#Antiphonitis -- more correctly the Church of Christ Antiphonitis (Χριστός Ἀντιφωνητής) -- is a domed church in #Cyprus, in #Kyrenia District, located in the mountains near the village of Kalograia. It is reached from the network of tracks and small roads in the area of the Herbarium and Agios Amvrosios. It is under the de facto control of #Northern #Cyprus.
The name Christ Antiphonitis means Christ who responds and a number of Greek churches are so designated. The epithet appears to derive from a miraculous icon of some kind which responded to prayers, but no account of this icon in Cyprus is known. The name is testified in the late medieval period. Writing in the sixteenth century, Stefano Lusignan in his Description de toute l'isle de Cypre (Paris, 1580) recalls that Antifoniti was a fief belonging to his family, that his maternal grandmother Isabella Perez Fabricius founded the monastery of Antifonite and that his brother John (who had become a monk under the name Hilarion) died there.
Architecture:
The church—built on the site of a natural spring at the head of a valley—was constructed in the twelfth century and belonged originally to a Greek Orthodox monastery. It consists of a single building with a spacious dome carried on eight pillars and is the only surviving example of this type in Cyprus. A ruined and partly restored example is in #Saint #Hilarion #Castle and there was once a similar church at the centre of the Monastery of #St. #John Chrysostomos at Koutsovendis before the church there was rebuilt at the end of the nineteenth century. The narthex on the western side and the arcade on the south were added a later time, probably in the fifteenth century when the building was under the Latin church. The irregular shape of the dome is perhaps due to damaged sustained during the 1222 Cyprus earthquake. Paintings:
The Church of Christ Antiphonitis is notable for the array of frescoes on the walls and on the pillars. The oldest paintings belong to the end of the twelfth century and are thought to be a local interpretation of the style of the late Comnenian period as it appears at Panagia tou Arakou at Lagoudera.
When first studied, the Virgin Mary and prelates in the apse were damaged, but the saints in the sanctuary were well preserved. Early painting also include decons, martyrs and stylites. There was a Baptism on the south-west pillar of the nave.

Church of Christ Antiphonitis, St. Endoxus in one the arches under the dome, twelfth century, as photographed in 2010.
The remaining paintings are later in date and belong to the 1400s. They are executed in a post-Byzantine local revival style. On the south wall was a Tree of Jesse, and on the north an elaborate Last Judgement or Μέλλουσα Κρίση. In the dome is Christ Pantocrator surround by angels. A. and J. Stylianou report that the paintings of the dome were already badly damaged at the time of their studies in the 1960s and 1970s.
Coordinates: 35°20′0″N 33°37′0″E
Kyrenia Castle North cyprus
Exploring /ghost hunting at Kyrenia Castle. I will be exploring most of cyprus stay tuned for more old interesting places