In the Sacred Grove of Cypriot Goddess of Beauty and Love that was in the area in which later the village of Arsos was built, the running water watered trees, animals, birds and humans. Aphrodite took care and endowed the Sacred Grove of lavishly and placed many natural water sources.
The geological composition of the rocks, allow them to absorb huge amounts of water during the rainy season. Some water which is returned back to the surface through cracks and springs, creates a beautiful and green confluent environment at its journey.
Six sources of this kind are located west of the village of Arsos Limassol and in one small part of the Sacred Grove of Aphrodite which "pulled through" from deforestation.
In the Middle Ages, people began to use the water from the springs to irrigate their main gardens and their animals. Much later, good craftsmen, dressed the sources with carved stone and created faucets famous for their beauty but also for the quality of their water.
For many years, people approached the faucets, either to taste the water, or to wash their clothes or to water their animals. They built a water supply system in orchards and canals led the water to their fields. They had people responsible of the fair and equitable distribution of water. The place prospered and the fields turned green.
In the 1950s, the then colonial government of the British proceeded to the creation of an aqueduct and channeled water in amianthus pipes to each home. People no longer needed the faucets. They got forgotten and neglected. The forest covered the elaborate constructions and the brambles eliminated them.
All this was true until a few years ago, when the community of Arsos, with progressive and visionary people, they decided to embellish the faucets and deliver them as historical monuments to lovers of nature and history.
They created a path which includes the six faucets. It was given the name "Monopati exi vrises" (the trail with six faucets), since at the 1200 metres of its length, it includes all the faucets.
At the end of the trail, you will find the sixth faucet. They call it "The Poullin"(the bird) faucet, because the craftsman who built it, carved a bird on it. It is a really beautiful construction, with two faucets from which raging water wells out. A few steps take you down from the road to the faucet where two internal stone arches accommodate two spouts. Nearby, the splash from the small river formed by the previous faucets add up to the melodies of the birds that nest in trees of the forest thus adding up from the water of this faucet.
When travelling in the region, walk the 1200 meters of the trail. You will love the biodiversity of the Grove of Aphrodite and the six faucets are a truly impressive sight.
