Magusa Moat Meander #2 Traditional Geocache
simboli2: Workmen have stored their equipment there so now in and out at various times.
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This cache is a micro hidden in a larger object which itself is in a larger object.
Please bring your own pen as there is no room to keep one in this cache.
A little bit about the walls...When the Venetians took over Cyprus in 1489, they inherited a city that already had defensive walls, built by the Lusignans. These walls were tall and thin for defence against the siege engines and bows and arrows of the day. However, by 1489, warfare had changed. The invention of gunpowder meant that cities now had to be defended against cannon attack, and Famagusta's walls were no longer suitable defence against the Ottomans, who were seen as the major threat, (Correctly as was seen just 80 years later). The Venetians immediately started to renovate and update the walls, bringing in specialists from Venice to oversee the work. The walls and bastions were strengthened, redundant arrow slits and openings being closed up. In their place, openings were made in the walls to house cannons and other modern artillery.
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