What would the Archbishop’s Palace in Nicosia be without the statue of its most famous occupant, Makarios, out front? To find out, just visit. They moved “Big Mak” off his pedestal in 2008: an eyesore, they said. The most interesting symbolic landscape in the city, I said. Archbishop Makarios led Cyprus to independence and became its first President. [2005]
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