St. Hilarion Castle is just a few kilometers away from my garrison. As one of three Crusade castles in northern Cypriot shores, it was once captured by Richard the Lionheart.
The writer Rose Macaulay describes St. Hilarion Castle as "a picture-book castle for elf-kings" and the rumour still persists that Walt Disney based his Disneyland castle on this northern Cypriot original.
