The neighbourhood surrounding the casde was once the Turkish commercial district, as street names will tell you, and its lanes are still worth a brief wander. The Cami (pronounced "Jami") Kabir, its minaret visible from the casde roof, is still used by Limassol's Arab and remaining Turkish Cypriot popula- tion, though the Cami Jedid (also known as the Koprulu HaCl Ibrahim Aga mosque), at the far end of Angyras nearer the former Turkish residential quarter, is firmly locked. The apses of a much older Lusignan church which once stood here have been excavated and exposed to view in the lane immedi- ately east of the Cami Kabir, while immediately south the Ottoman hamam, with a calligraphic inscription over the door, still functions friJm 2 to 10pm. Also on Angyras at no. 45, identifiable by a huge, fragrant eucalyptus in the yard, is a care that's much more genuine than the fast-food joints immediately around the castle. The latter alternate with tacky souvenir stalls; the covered central market, an attractive, late-nineteenth-century stone-built structure, may appeal more, especially after its recent refurbishment. A few minutes' Walk past the Cami Kabir, beyond the hideous early-twentieth-century cathedral of Ayia Napa, the old mitropolis of Ayios Andhr6nikos, built in mock-Byzantine style during the 1870s, hides in a cul-de-sac accessible only by a single alley friJm the waterfront.
