In the 14th century the Cypriot Orthodox Greeks built a ‘metropolitan’ or cathedral in Famagusta. Using Gothic designs but modifying them to Byzantine prototypes, the church had elements of both a French Gothic cathedral and a Byzantine church. But the combination, though beautiful, was a bit unstable architecturally. The vaults fell long ago, though they may have been helped by the bombardment of iron Ottoman cannon balls in the 1570 siege (a few of them are still ensconced in the walls of the church). It’s still today one of the great sights in Famagusta, filled with fading frescoes and ship graffiti, it’s a textbook of Famagusta’s storied history.