The Capital city of Cyprus, Nicosia is surrounded by two hundred and sixteen villages and settlements.
In the Archangelos and Makedonitissa area, the Holy Church of Agios Panteleimonas is built. In an area that has greatly evolved rapidly in the past years and the population increased dramatically, it was necessary to build a Church capable to fit all the believers in.
The erection works s... More
In Lakatamia, in a refugee settlement, there is a Holy Church dedicated to Agios Mamas. It is one of the 66 churches and chapels in the whole of Cyprus that are dedicated to this Saint.
It is found while crossing the Spyrou Kyprianou street, towards the direction of the roundabout of the ... More
The Holy Monastery of Archangel Michael has a very old story hidden in the depth of time. First references about the Monastery are made in 1660 and it is stated that the Archbishop of Cyprus Nikiforos during that period, renovated the Monastery. No references are made about its history before tha... More
The old church of Agios Georgios in Potami, Morphou, is built on a small hill on the south exit of the village and it dominates the river that passes in the area.
It is an old building and was constructed in 1550 by the Queen of Cyprus of that period, Aikaterini Kornaro. It is a single ai... More
On the 10th of May, 2014, the new Church of Agios Georgios was inaugurated, which is the Patron Saint of a small community called Potami.
A few kilometres from Morphou’s shores, the settlers of a village felt the need that their community acquires a new church. It was in 1998 when the nee... More
The earthen fence in Vyzakia, is found on the north side of the village and on the left side of the road that leads to the village of Agia Marina, of you are travelling from Vyzakia. It was constructed in 1994 and it had a volume capacity of 1.690.000 cubic metres of water. Fishing is prohibited ... More
When the department of forests received the non fertile area where the National Forest park is found today, on their effort to create a big forest, it was necessary that they join two torrents, the Vathis (deep) and kalogeros (monk), and to gather water with an earthen fence in order to irrigate ... More
The National forest park of Athalassa, covers an area of 8.5 square kilometres and it is found between the Aglantizia municipality, the Strovolos municipality, the Latsia municipality and the Geri municipality. The park’s value for the whole of Nicosia cannot be calculated, since it is the only g... More
