Gallery
Venice: The basin of St Mark from the campanile: awaiting a fast galley from Lepanto at any moment
Venice: A gloomy looking Bragadin, the martyr of Famagusta (Doge’s Palace)
The gates of the arsenal, Venice’s great factory of maritime war
The Maltese landscape: a barren place for invaders
Malta: A poster welcomes you to Birgu – Fort St Angelo is at the left hand end
Malta: The narrow streets of historic Birgu
Malta: A rather garish Knight of St John
Malta: Armour from the Knight’s armoury (Grandmaster’s Palace)
Malta: Ottoman soldier flanked by scimitars (Grandmaster’s Palace)
Malta: Finely inlaid Ottoman arquebuses (Grandmaster’s Palace )
Selim’s mosque, the Selimiye, in Nicosia, once the St Sophia cathedral
The Venetian fortress at Kyrenia surrendered without a shot
Famagusta, dominated by the sea and light.
Famagusta: an air of desolation hangs over the ancient churches
The bastions of the Venetian defences of Famagusta
The Venetian ditch at Famagusta
Famagusta: the Venetian lion still rampant on Othello’s tower: “Nicholas Foscareno, prefect of Cyprus, 1480”
Famagusta: the cathedral church of St Nicholas, now the Lala Mustapha Pasha mosque.
Famagusta: Bragadin probably met his end tied to one of these ancient pillars from nearby Salamis
Istanbul: The approach to the Suleymaniye, Suleiman’s great mosque
Istanbul: From the terrace of the Suleymaniye, a view over the mouth of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, the centre of Ottoman naval power
Istanbul: Monument to Barbarossa: the sultan’s admiral at the prow of his stone ship
Model of Barbarossa’s galley in the Naval Museum in Istanbul
Istanbul Naval Museum: decorated stern of the world’s only authentic surviving galley
The galley’s rowing benches
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