Selladi tis Aftoullinas is still a location in Cyprus that does not by any means remind us of its past. The marks of abandonment are more than visible on the only tap that refreshed the passersby that travelled from Poli Chrysochous to Stavros tis Psokas through the village of Lysos.

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Ten kilometres northeast of the village of Panagia, Paphos, within the forest of Emnon, there is a small chapel dedicated to Agios Georgios. From the name of the forest surrounding the chapel, the Saint was named Agios Georgios Emnon.

It is a single-aisled basilica that has a wooden gable...

The location of “Dichaloi” is found left of the road of Panagia towards Koilada ton Kedron (the Valley of the Cedrus trees).  It is a location where there are many water springs that are being used to irrigate the communities nearby.

An artificial water tap constructed in 1981, a woo...

The dam of Kannaviou is ranked fourth among the dams of Cyprus in terms of capacity, and second in terms of height. It has a capacity of 18 million cubic metres of water. It was a height of 70 metres and its dyke has a length of 600 metres. It is found at a distance of about forty kilometres from...

Vrisi tou Diakou (the tap of the deacon) is found 3 kilometres south of the picnic area of Agia, within the valley of the river of Ezousa, if you are travelling from Stavros tis Psokas towards the dam of Kannaviou.

The source of the tap is found a few metres away from the dirt road and th...

The picnic area of Agia is found in the valley created by the river of Ezousa. It is at a distance of about 10 kilometres from the Stavros tis Psokas picnic area. It is a dirt road in the forest. Even though the Department of Forests takes care of it quite often and cleans it from landslides, it ...

The river of Ezousa is ranked sixth in terms of length out of all the dams that exist on the island. It has a length of 41 kilometres. Its starting point is found very high on the slopes of Tripylos, east of the Forest station in Stavros tis Psokas. From there, after it covers a distance of 23 ki...

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...

The Matsima tap is very old, and it was the first stop for the travellers that were heading to Stavros tis Psokas and from there on to Poli and Pyrgos, coming from the Kykkos Monastery or the area of Kampos tis Tsakkistras.

The water up until 1967 ran freely from the rocks, thus creating ...

In the green forest of Paphos, on the slope that dominates the valley of Agios Theodoros, a small chapel is found, dedicated to Timios Stavros. It is a basilica, with a wooden roof.

It is constantly open for worshippers.

A few hundreds of metres away the Forestry station of Stavro...

The picnic area of Stavros tis Psokas is found 26 kilometres away from the Monastery of Panagia tou Kykkou, 20 kilometres away from the villages of Paphos Lysos and Kannaviou, right in the forest of Paphos.

It is an organised area and it provides with all the facilities for a comfortable ...

The Cypriot Mouflon is a subspecies of the Asian wild sheep Ovis orientalis, and it is the conqueror in the forests of the island.

Up until a few decades ago, it was endangered to become extinct, since the number of the animals had been decreased to 15.  After some drastic measures t...