Places in Cyprus - Taps - Panagia tou Kampou faucet, Akapnou, Limassol
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...
Places in Cyprus - Agiochoma, Akapnou, Limassol
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...
Villages in Cyprus - Akapnou, Limassol
East of the Vasiliko confluent, at “argaki tis Rigenas”, at a distance of 4 kilometres from the big village of Eptagonia, you will find Akapnou. It is a village in which there are only 20 settlers.
It is built on the slopes of a hill dominating over the big field that extends until Eptago...
Chapels in Cyprus - Panagia tou Kampou, Akapnou, Limassol
In the same field where thousands of years ago Goddess Aphrodite was hosted and after Rigaina, the mysterious and legendary Queen of Cyprus, there is also a small chapel dedicated to Our Lady. This chapel is called “ekklisia tis Panagias tou Kampou” (the church of Our Lady of the field).
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Church of Cyprus - Panagia toy Kampou, Choirokoitia, Larnaca
The church dedicated to Our Lady is built from the 7th century in the field found west of the village of Choirokoitia, in the “shadow” of the “hill of the Franks”. In that very same field, the deadly battle between the invading army of the Mameluks and the army of the king of Cyprus, Ianos, resul...
