In 2002, the row of stone-built industrial and commercial premises bound- ing the castle on two sides was rescued crom long-standing dereliction by its owners, the Lanitis Group. The Lanitis .Carob Mill on the northwest side was restored both as a cree museum to the processing of the pods into syrup, animal feed-pellets and culinary powder, which only ceased in the 1970s, and as the home of the Time Elevator (daily 9am-8pm, shows more or less hourly; C£7, children C£5), Limassol's most heavily touted tourist attraction. Some five thousand years of Cypriot history are compressed into 25 minutes of tenden- tious, hokily scripted highlights as you're strapped into a lurching, ten-seater "car" and buffeted by surround-sound, 3D visuals and various other sensory phenomena (scuttling-mice effects, wind in your hair, etc).
The warehouses occupying the southwesterly row of buildings have, almost without exception, been colonized by cutting-edge bars, cares and restaurants.
