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[rocking_one86]

Only a few miles North of Gazimagusa, you can find the remnants of the ruins of the antique city of Salamis abandoned to the encroaching sand. It was built in the 11th century BC by Achaean and Anatolian settlers who were soon joined by the refugees who finally abandoned Enkomi-Alasia in 1050 BC. Salamis is a great site. The most impressive remains are the theatre and the gymnasium. The others are the palaestra (vast exercise ground with marble columns), the sudatorium (or sweating room) and the calderium. The excavations are scattered over a square mile of scrub and acacia.

[neo666]

this place is a photographers delight and there are some great images with the area around the ruins. Since it is maintained well, the ruins are still having some great artifacts and seeped in history. The temperature in summer reaches around 30 degree celsius, so a sunhat is in order. There are lot of things near the ruins and is a excavators delight