Nicosia III, The Venetian Wall Traditional Geocache
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Nicosia III, The Venetian Wall
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The cache is a micro magnetic and is placed not in a very popular public place but there are muggles everywhere.
Nicosia series III, The Venetian Wall
Do you want to walk back in history on narrow streets, old houses and buildings? Then this is the cache for you and not only. Follow the Nicosia caches and be part of the history.
The history here is the Venetian Wall.
The Venetian Wall, designed by the military engineer Julio Savorgnano, was built between 1567 and 1570, when the Venetians expected a Turkish invasion by Ottoman Sultan Selim.
A more fragile circuit of walls built by the Lusignan rulers of Cyprus was torn down, to be replaced by Savorgnano's construction, providing a shortened defence perimeter of just one mile. This involved destroying most of the Lusignan city, but that sucrifice was clearly considered worthwhile. The new wall contained eleven bastions, named after Venetian officials and Cypriot nobles, and three gates. Despite the warning served by the Sultan, the walls were still incomplete by the time the invading force landed. The base of the wall was constructed in stone, but the upper part of the wall was a little more than glorified earthworks. A planned moat was also abandoned, the replacement trench was not deep enough, and the walls lacked essential internal support. The Venetians boasted that the wall could withstand a two-year siege. In fact, it survived less than fifty days of assault.
A Turkish force of ten thousand assembled in the plain surrounding Nicosia on July 24, 1570, and started hurling artillery shells at the shaky edifice. An all night bombardment, followed by a coordinated assault on four of the bastions precipitated the end on September 9. Over twenty thousand people were slaughtered in the ensuing bloodbath and the Turkish troops were allowed to loot for three days. Eighty years of Venetian rule was at an end, to be replaced by a Turkish occupation destined to survive more than two centuries.
Cache notes:
Please, REPLACE the cache as found for its survival.
Bring your own pen or pencil to log.
Please also do not use stamps (it takes A LOT OF SPACE).
A FTF diploma in the cache.
CITO is welcome
Note. The cache was muggled and at 11/10/2008 was replaced with a new micro magnetic one, on the same coordinates but different elevation. New hint is encrypted. Also i added spoiler photos.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Abg ba fgerrg yriry. Jnyx 26 srrg sebz gur jrfg ragenapr, ybbx Fbhgu ba jnyy, uvture guna lbh.