The emergency restoration of one of the most famous architectural symbols of Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, the Venetian Walls, surrounding the Old Town, is completed.

The restoration, which was funded by the EU, included the removal of vegetation between the Mula Bastion and the gates of Kyrenia, as well as work on the collapsed part between the Mula and Roccas Bastions and the emergency part of the Kvirini Bastion.

The fortress walls of Nicosia, up to 12 m high and a total length of about 5 km, surrounded by a moat almost thirty meters wide, where the waters of the Pedialos River were to be directed, were erected in the middle of the 16th century and are considered the best preserved Renaissance fortifications in the Eastern Mediterranean.