Places to see in Guzelyurt

Guzelyurt Museum
The Guzelyurt museum houses a collection ranging from the prehistoric age of Cyprus to the Byzantine period. Primitive tools uncovered from different prehistoric settlements around Cyprus, and samples of pottery from the Bronze Age are exhibited at the museum. A red on white and red polished earthen pot belonging to the Early Bronze Age, a red on white pot belonging to the Middle Bronze Age, and a red glossed pot belonging to the Late Bronze Age can be seen at the museum. Furthermore, findings from the Toumba Tou Skourou settlement close to Guzelyurt and items from the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods are on exhibition. 

The St. Mamas Monastery
St. Mamas was a local Christian saint who lived in the 12th century. The St. Mamas Monastery was first built in Byzantine style. It was rebuilt during different periods and during the middle ages a building in Gothic style was erected. The large central and the monastic buildings date back to the 18th Century. Its entrance and columns were built by the Lusignans on the remains of a Byzantine church.
Legend has it that in the 12th Century Mamas, a poor Cypriot hermit, refused to pay his taxes and troops were sent to bring him to the capital for punishment. On the way, the party came across a lion about to kill a lamb. Mamas saved the lamb by taking it in his arms and rode the wild lion to the capital. The Byzantine authorities were so impresses with what they saw that they released the hermit from his obligations. Since then St. Mamas has been regarded as the protector of tax avoiders. All around the island there are 14 churches dedicated to St. Mamas. He was buried in the Monastery. The marble tomb of St Mamas has survived and its iconostasis is covered with Venetian shields.