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LIMASSOL CYPRUS

Limassol the island second largest city is a brash functional and grittily authentic place redeemed by a wide range of dining options and sophisticated nightlife. More than anywhere else in the South

Although is old centre of levantine stone buildings and alleways lends the city some char Limmasol is primarily the industrial and commercial capital of the southern coast. Specializing wine making citrus processing and canning

History
A near complete lack of significant monuments attest to relative youth of the town Limassol hardly existed before the christian era. being for centuries overshadowed by amathus to the east Kourion to the west. It burst into prominence in 1191 when Richard the lionhearts fiancee Berengaria of Navarre and his sister were nearly shipwrecked just offshore. Isaac Komnenos self styled ruler of the island refused to send them provisions Hearingof this insult to his intended Richard landed nearby in force married Berengaria on the site of the present day Limassol castle and went on to claim the island after defeating Isaac in battle.

two centuries of prosperity followed with both the Kinghts hospitallers and Knight Templars having extensive holdings around Limassol after the loss of the Holly land. However an earthquake and devasting raids by Genoese Mameluked and finally the Turks combined to level settlement by the begining of the ottoman era

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