The village of Nata is found east of the town of Paphos. It is 4 kilometers away from the village of Anarita and it is built on the western shore of the Xeros river, on the peak of a high hill.

In order to get to Nata, we traveled towards the area of the Military base of Anarita (KEN...

Το νησί της Μεσογείου, την Κύπρο, το καλοκαίρι πολύ δύσκολα το αποχωρίζεται. Για αυτό στις πανέμορφες παραλίες του θα δείτε καθ’ όλη τη διάρκεια του έτους, ανθρώπους από διάφορες χώρες του πλανήτη να απολαμβάνουν τα καθαρά και κρυστάλλινα νερά τους. Η Κύπρος διαθέτει δεκάδες αμμώδεις παραλίες οι ...

Στο χωριό Λιοπέτρι, εκεί που σήμερα κτυπά η καρδιά της Αμμοχώστου, οι άνθρωποι της έκτισαν μνημείο και το αφιέρωσαν στην πολύτεκνη Μάνα της Αμμοχώστου. Το έκτισαν με γρανίτη και σκάλισαν σε αυτόν την χαρακτηριστική μορφή της Μεσαορίτισσας Μάνας, που σαν πέρδικα σκεπάζει με τα φτερά της τα 18 παιδιά ...

Στην δυτική πλαγιά της κοιλάδας  του ποταμού Κούρη και σε απόσταση 23 χιλιομέτρων από την πόλη της Λεμεσού συναντάμε το χωριό Άγιος Γεώργιος Αγκαθιώτης ή όπως είναι πιο γνωστό Άγιος Γεώργιος Συλίκου. Ονομάζεται «Άγιος Γεώργιος Συλίκου» από το γεγονός ότι συνορεύει με το χωριό «Συλίκου» που ε...

In the Lara and Toxeftra regions, located at Cape of Akamas there are dozens of small or large bays that create fantastic sandy beaches. Some of these are ideal places for nesting the eggs of the endangered Mediterranean green turtles but also the  Karreta-Karreta species, also in danger of ...

Από πολλές χιλιετίες πριν γεννηθεί στην γη ο Χριστός, στην Κύπρο ανθούσε η παραγωγή ελιών και ελαιολάδου. Αυτό οφείλεται κυρίως στο γεγονός ότι το ελαιόδεντρο φύεται από μόνο του σε άγρια μορφή στο νησί από τις παράκτιες περιοχές μέχρι και πέραν των 1000 μέτρων ύψος. Καρποφορεί δε μέχρι τα 900 μέτρα...

Το μικρό αλλά πολύ όμορφο χωριό Πραστειό Κελλακίου που ανήκει στην επαρχία της Λεμεσού, μέχρι και πριν μερικές δεκάδες χρόνια ήταν μία από τις πολλές περιοχές της Κύπρου που κύρια ασχολία των κατοίκων ήταν η αμπελοκαλλιέργεια και η παραγωγή Κουμανταρίας. Σήμερα όλα αυτά αποτελούν παρελθόν και αυτ...

Κατά τη διάρκεια της πορείας ενός ταξιδιού, προσπερνούμε μικρά και φαινομενικά ασήμαντα κτίσματα ή και μνημεία ακόμα, απλά και μόνο γιατί δεν ξέρουμε τη σημασία ή ακόμα και την ιστορία τους και ακόμα πιο πολύ γιατί δεν ξέρουμε πόσο σημαντικά ήταν για τους ανθρώπους, όταν αυτά ήταν σε χρήση. Ένα τ...

When you go to an African country and want to visit one of the hundreds of National Parks you must first be provided with permission to enter it by the competent authorities. If you get into it without permission and are arrested, then, no one knows where you will end up. All this happens in Afri...

Ταξιδεύοντας από την πόλη της Λεμεσού προς το ορεινό χωριό Κελλάκι ανεβαίνοντας στις επικλινείς πλαγιές του Ληστόβουνου, συναντήσαμε στα αριστερά μας και μέσα στην κοιλάδα απορροής του ποταμού Άμαθου, το μικρό χωριό Πραστείο Κελλακίου. Το ανάγλυφο της περιοχής άγριο με πάρα πολλές βουνοκορφές να ...

In the centre of the village of Liopteri, there is one of the most beautiful architecturally speaking churches of Cyprus. It is dedicated to Panagia Eleousa and it is built in the shape of a single aisled Basilica with a dome. It is covered by a gabled and pointed roof.

It is said that it...

Thousands of years ago, before the Municipality of Paris "created" the "Love Bridge" which eventually collapsed under the weight of locks that couples in love hung on it, the Cypriot sea sculpted and prepared the people for its own “Love Bridge".

East of the pre-eminent tourist destinatio...

In August 30, 1958, four EOKA rebels were found after anonymous information was received at the offices of the Royal Ulster Rifles, in the settlement of Famagusta district, under the name "Liopetri."

Immediately instructions were given to the commander of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Ar...

In the small village of Delikipos in the Larnaca district, there is a Church dedicated to Metamorfosi tou Sotiros (the Transformation of the Saviour). It is found on the peak of the small barrow dominating the small field, where the few houses of the village are built.

It is a single aisl...

When you are in Cyprus, either as a visitor or as a resident and you have not visited or even walked part of the valley of Ezousa, this means that you did not see nor learned anything about the island. The valley, in all its length, from Tripylos until the coasts west of Acheleia includes unique ...

From the early years of cosmogony, the water was the most basic resource on which the existence of any living organism is based. The gods made sure that Earth was covered at its most with water. They decided that mountains should store large quantities of water in their bowels, which then, return...

In the village of Agios Constantinos located in Limassol, there is church dedicated to the Saints Constantinos and Eleni. It is a new Church of Byzantine type and is cruciform bearing a dome.

On the roof it bears pointed arches covered with Byzantine styled tiles. It is built with local s...

In Foinikaria village, located in the Limassol district, east of Germasogeia dam, you will find the Church dedicated to the Panagia Chryseleousa. It is triple-aisled basilica bearing pointed vaults and covered with tiles.

It is built with local stone in 1835. The bell tower is incorporate...

In the year 1300 B.C. the ships of the unwanted in their homelands, Achaeans, anchored on the coast of Cyprus. They were heroes and besiegers of Troy but unwelcome in their homeland after 10 years of absence.

Among them was the son of ...

Among the ruins of the old village in Agios Constantinos in the Limassol district, there is a small chapel dedicated to the Panagia Eleousa. It is a single-aisled basilica bearing a pitched tiled and pointed roof. It is covered with a type of flat tiles, which were constructed in a contemporary p...

Bridging a river with a stone bridge, requires great craftsmanship as well as a certain degree of luck. Until the first half of the 20th century in Cyprus such bridges were built, which we encounter on the roads that connect towns and villages. We pass most of them without even noticing them.

In the village of Agios Constantinos located in the Limassol district, there is an old church dedicated to Saints Constantinos and Eleni. It is a single aisled basilica bearing a wooden, pointed and tiled roof. The tiles are flat type.

There are no reports for the year creation. An inscri...

The cultivation of olive trees in Cyprus, is lost in the depths of millennia. The Cypriot olive variety, combined with the most suitable for the growth and fruiting of the tree, weather conditions on the island, as well as the content of soil with the most necessary for this purpose minerals, giv...

1974… the beginning of the implementation of the satanic plan for trisection of the island of Cyprus took place the morning of Saturday July 20th. That sad day began like this. "Special military communiqué. It is announced that this morning, Turkish aircraft without notice, sneakily and cowardly…...

The village of Agios Konstantinos in the province of Limassol, is built on a hillside slope of the Papoutsa mountain which is included within the valley of the Amathos river.

Although the story goes far back in time, the village consists of houses built only in the second half of the 20th...

In the small village of Sanida, in Limassol, there is a church dedicated to Metamorfoseos tou Sotiros (Transformation of the Savior). It is three-aisled basilica. The roof is covered with tiles and forms six vaults.

We were informed that the shape of the Basilica bearing vaults, is a very...

The Cypriot Goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite, when coming out from the sea of ​​Paphos which gave birth to her, she made sure to grace her favorite island with unique beauties and charms. She created beautiful forests that are crossed by inexhaustible rivers and she appointed nymphs to look ...

It was back in 1191 AD when the small island of Cyprus, was invaded by the massive military force of the King of England, Richard the Lionheart. Without finding any resistance from the Byzantines that held the island, they reached the outskirts of the capital. In the ensuing battle between the in...

The church of the village of Klonari in the district of Limassol, is dedicated to Agios Nikolaos. It is found at the entrance of the village, if you are entering it from the village of Kellaki, on the peak of a small hill.

It is a single aisled Basilica that has a wooden, pointed and vaul...

Klonari in Limassol, is located 3 kilometres east of the Kellaki village and 2 kilometres west of Vikla. It is a small village since its residents, including those of the sports «Vikla Golf» center do not exceed 63.

The few houses that develop on both sides of cobbled streets, are built o...

Even though the village of Vikla was abandoned by its settlers and it is now ruined, but the manor it used to be, that extends to the south, thanks to the efforts of the people who wanted to develop the area, remains “alive” even if its usage has changed.

It no longer produces olives and ...

In the ruined and abandoned village in the Limassol district, Vikla, the only building that still remains intact today is the church of Agios Ioannis Eleimon (Merciful). It is built on the peak of a low hill, dominating the vast fields of Vikla and valley of the river of Vasiliko.

It is b...

On the plain that "stretched" between the villages of Eptagonia and Akapnou, an ancient faucet still gives water. It is the fountain of "Panagia tou Kampou” (Our Lady of Campos). Unfit for human consumption anymore, the water continues to flow and connects to that of the Vasiliko river, which sti...

The chapel of Profitis Ilias is found in the most privileged location of the small settlement “Profitis Ilias” that belongs to the village of Sykopetra in the District of Limassol.

The chapel was constructed by a resident of the village Sykopetra after he found an icon of the Prophet on t...

Location “Doksa soi o Theos” is the beginning of a journey of 3.75 kilometres ending a few dozens of metres away from the “adelphoi” (brothers) peak where the fire lookout station of Madari is found. The access until the location “Doksa soi o Theos” is made through very good, asphalt roads such i...

There are some stone bridges in Cyprus that are amazing monuments in terms of engineering. Some are with an arch, and some with two or more arches. The ones with two arches are called “diplogefira” (double bridges).

A double bridge of this kind, built of stone, is found at the river of Va...

East of Kellaki in the Limassol district, there are remains of an abandoned and ruined village which bears the name "Vikla". It was built on the slope of a small and smooth hill dominating the great plains from the south, and the valley created by the tributary of Vasiliko from the north. West, t...

Among the villages of Akapnou and Eptagonia there is a site called "Agiochoma". It is a religious site and has cult character. It is situated 100 meters west of the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Kampos, in the direction of Eptagonia on the south shore of the tributary of Vasiliko. Once, there w...

The settlers of Sykopetra chose to dedicate the main church of the village to Agios Dimitrios. It is built on the edge of a deep ravine and geographically it is in the center of the village that "spreads" into a straight line on the slope of the mountain peak of  Papoutsa.

It was bui...

In the beautiful little village "Profitis Ilias” (Prophet Elijah) of Sykopetra, Limassol and in the "shadow" of the mountain peak of Papoutsa, there is a National Monument, dedicated to the Hero of the Republic of Cyprus and who was killed in the domain of Honour.

It is built in the court...

On our small island, there are some monuments - museums whose history is inextricably linked with the history of our People. Unfortunately, the indifference of the leaders and most of the current rulers, which leaves them at the mercy of time, weather and other conditions, resulting them to be de...

The settlement of Profitis Ilias is located in the administrative district of the village of Sykopetra and it is about three kilometers away from it. This settlement, has a long history since it was founded only a few decades ago.

"It is said" that a shepherd, a resident of Sykopetra, fou...

In the southeastern Mediterranean waters, there is a small island called Cyprus. A poet described it as "golden green leaf tossed into the sea” and was absolutely right. Cyprus, no matter how small it is, its beauties are so many that they are out of proportion compared to its size. It is charact...

The main church of the village of Odou in the mountain area of Larnaca is dedicated to the favourite Saint of the Cypriot people, Agia Marina. It is a construction dated in the 18th century. It is built in the form of a single aisled Basilica that has a wooden, gabled and pointed vaulted roof.

Upon travelling from Choirokoitia and when ascending towards Ora going to the village of Odou, I had the image of a neglected and abandoned mountain village in mind and this is what I was expecting to see. Thus, I concentrated on the beautiful journey that begins from the outskirts of Ora and con...

“Santa Barbara” beach is found close to the archaeological site of Amathus, a hundred metres east of the small church dedicated to Agia Varvara and it belongs to the administrative periphery of Agios Tychonas, Limassol.

It is a natural beach since it does not have breakwaters and it is no...

West of the village of Eptagonia that belongs to the Limassol district, and on the peak of a small hill, among cypress and pine trees, is where the small chapel dedicated to Agios Georgios is found for the past half century.

The small Church was fully built with the help of donations and ...

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...

Arsos, Limassol, is the village that was built in the place of the Holy Alsos (grove) of Aphrodite which has “inherited” the natural charms of the Goddess. In a ravine, there is still a small part of the grove in which there are six natural sources of water. For thousands of years the water gushe...

In the Municipality of Episkopi in Limassol, there is a Church dedicated to Agia Paraskevi. It is built in a central square, following a Basilica style, which has a gabled vaulted roof.

On the south wall, five external arches are formed, likewise on the north wall. It is built out of whit...

East of the Monastery of Agios Ioannis Lampadistis (the Illuminator), in the village of Marathasa, Kalopanagiotis, the chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary is built on the slope of the bed of a tributary of Setrachos.

It is built in the 12th century simultaneously with the Monastery of Agi...

Kalopanayiotis village is found on the shores of Setrachos river on an altitude of about 700 metres. The houses that make up the settlement, “rise” onto the western side, with an intense slope on the valley of Marathasa, in the depth of which the river flows.

The village does not have a l...

The Cedar Valley can be found on the route from the Monastery of Kykkos to Stavros tis Psokas. It covers areas of the southern slope of Tripylos and part of the north. The location as it has been described as the "Cedar Valley" is located on the southern slope, in the Paphos Forest. Administrativ...

Cyprus is a small island somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Ever since we have evidence, it was twice abandoned by all its inhabitants, because the heavens were not giving rains. Forests prevent people from discovering the "hidden" sources gushing from the bowels of the mountain, creatin...

The picnic area “Marathos” is found on a slope of Troodos at an altitude of 1300 metres. It was created by the Department of Forests of Cyprus and it has been equipped with all the facilities a Cypriot or foreign visitor would wish for.

On the middle of a steep slope, the Department of Fo...

The Location “Petrokefala” is found 8 kilometres before the village of Kampos tis Tsakkistras at an altitude of 702 metres. You will find it when travelling from the area of Orkonta to Pyrgos and Kampos.

Apart from the amazing view that it offers towards the gulf of Morfou and our occupie...

The picnic area of Xerargaka has a capacity of 650 people. It spreads on a narrow strip of land, whose width does not exceed 40 metres and it is part of the bed of a small stream that is formed by the natural sources gushing out along its length.

It is an organised picnic area and the vis...

Oikos Marathasas is a very small mountain village, with about 200 residents. It is found built on the east slope of the ravine that holds the waters of the river Setrachos, going to the dam of Kalopanagiotis.

The village “climbs” on the steep slope of the mountain, and it gives the visito...

The Location Vouppos is the east shore of the river Xeros in Morfou. On the peak of the hill, it dominates the gulf and the field that spreads from the feet of the hills, until the sea of the occupied City. The dam of Kafizis and the areas of green due to the water, combine perfectly with the blu...

The Holy Church of Timiou Stavrou tou Agiasmati, is found five kilometres northwest of the village of Platanistasa, on the geographical periphery of Pitsilia. It is the Katholikon (major church building) of the Monastery carrying the same name, that existed in the area from the 15th century.

At the river of Elia, that has its sources high on the slopes of the Madari mountain, there are two Venetian bridges. The Medieval bridge of Agios Epiphanios that is found a little before the village of Lagoudera, and the Medieval bridge of Xyliatos. The two Venetian bridges were the only passage...

The path of Panagia tou Araka - Stavros tou Agiasmati, has its starting point at the Medieval Monastery of Panagia tou Araka, from the point where the giant oak is found, and it has its end at 8 kilometres east, where another Medieval Monastery, Stavros tou Agiasmati is found.

It is a ver...

From the very ancient years, the people that lived on the slopes of the mountain of Madari, used a path that followed the journey of the river Elias to reach the lowland villages. They always gave names to locations to be able to delimit their itinerary.

At some point, a few hundred metre...

The Holy Monastery of Panagia tou Araka is found on the northwest side of the village of Lagoudera, on a road that takes you to the nearby village, Saranti. It is a construction of the 12th century and it belongs to the single aisled Churches with a dome.

The Church is covered with a gabl...

The village of Lagoudera is found on the outskirts of the mountain peak of Madari, in the area of Pitsilia, and on the west shore of the river Elia. The journey to the village that begins after the water dam of Xyliatos, will take you through the pine tree forest that covers the deep ravine creat...

Upon travelling from Kykkos Monastery towards the picnic area of “Stavros tis Psokas”, the excursionist will cover a distance of 26 kilometres through the forest of Troodos and then through the forest of Paphos. The journey is destined for… strong travellers. Even though the road is linear, apart...

The journey Kykkos Monastery - Stavros tis Psokas, can be easily characterised as one of the best that the mountain area of Cyprus may offer us. Emotions succeed one another and each road’s turn has a good surprise.

The sinuous road, seems to be hanging from nowhere, since it passes above...

The Holy Monastery of Panagia tou Kykkou is found on one of the highest mountain peaks of the mountains of Kykkos, in the forest of Troodos. It is a male monastery that was founded after a series of miracles that concerned Byzantine masters of Cyprus, as well as the Emperor Alexios Komninos himse...

On the mountain of Koroni, next to the abandoned Turkish Cypriot village “Agioi Iliofotoi”, a chapel is found built dedicated to five brothers who became Saints due to their monk life. Agioi Iliofotoi were among 300 Alamano monks that arrived in Cyprus, after being persecuted by the Orthodox mona...

Upon your excursion to Mitsero, apart from the old metal mines, the Kokkinolimni (red lake) and the two small dams, you will have the opportunity to see the small chapel dedicated to a relatively “unknown” Saint. Agios Marios.

The small chapel is found built between a small torrent and th...

In the village of Nicosia, Mitsero, there is a small chapel dedicated to Panagia Lampadiotissa. It is a single aisled basilica and it has a tiled roof. It was built by residents of the village, after a certain vision. It is said that as he was asleep, a man had a vision that someone pushed him to...

The Holy Church of Agios Kyriakos Anachoritis is built in Kampos tis Tsakkistras is a 1881 construction and it was built after another, smaller one that was there from the Frank Empire dedicated to Agios Kyriakos, was demolished.

It is a gabled Basilica church, built opposite the monument...

One of the two dams that are found in the village of Lythrodontas, is accessible on the road going towards the Monastery of Profitis Ilias, south of the village and it is called “Pano Fragma” (Upper Dam).

It is a construction of 1952 and it works with gravity. Its dyke has a height of ten...

There is a small picnic area next to the monastery of Prophet Ilias in Lythrodonta. It provides its visitors with the most necessary things for a comfortable stay of a few hours, for rest and for food preparation.

A rotisserie gives the excursionists the opportunity to prepare their food ...

The abandoned and ruined monastery of Profitis Ilias is found seven kilometres south of the village of Lythrodonta, that belongs to the district of Nicosia. It is built on the peak of a hill that is part of the Kionia mountains, in the forest of Machairas.

The Church of the monastery is i...

On the north of Nisou, the catacomb of Agios Eftichios or Agios Epafras is found. No one knows if they are two different people or if the two names belong to the same Saint.

The catacomb was a hellenistic tomb which later on, during the first years of Christianity the Bishop of Akanthou E...

On the west side of the village of Sia, on the road going from Sia to Mathiatis, humans dug into the ground to find copper and pyrite for many years. The small trains went downhill into the galleries, they were filled with soil and went up to the earth’s surface with difficulty to transfer their ...

The river Xeros Morfou has its sources at the north mountain peaks of the mountains of Kykkos and mostly at the northeast forest areas of the villages of Kampos and Tsakkistra. It has its mouth between the occupied villages Xeros and Karavostasi, that are found on the gulf of Morfou.

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