Hard to draw a line between feral and non-feral cats here. The climate is such that living outdoors is easy year round and probably none of the cats around here sleep inside, even in winter. Not sure that the ones the neighbours feed are “their” cats or just ones with which they have a friendly relationship. And they know better than to feed them right on the doorstep. So now does J, after the black cat he fed curled up on the doormat. Still gets our scraps but not in our little garden
The city walls are about two miles in circumference. It’s not circular, so the diameter formula doesn’t work, but still nowhere you might want to go is likely to be as much as a mile away. The heart, although not the geographical centre, is the mosque, originally St Nicholas Cathedral, and the square in front of it. The fig tree in front is believed to be the oldest living thing in Cyprus, its plaque identifying it as dating from 1299. Ground breaking for the cathedral was in 1298 and it was finished about a century later.
It became a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1571 - not ancient history as timelines in the Middle East go.
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