Akamas Flora & Fauna
By admin at February 15, 2011 | 10:40 pm | 0 Comment
The Akamas region is the last extensive coastal area in Cyprus which includes extensive near virgin habitats and vegetation communities. Its flora is rich and varied. In spring it provides a spectacle of breathtaking beauty with colours and shapes long lost in most of the rest of the island; a reminder of the island's original identity. Its coastline is still largely
PAFOS (PAPHOS)
By admin at January 30, 2011 | 12:38 pm | 0 Comment
Pafos, in the west coast of Cyprus, was the legendary birthplace of the Greek goddess of beauty and love, Aphrodite. It is out of the seas of Pafos that Aphrodite is said to have risen, and it was in her Temple at Palaipafos (Kouklia), one of the most celebrated places in the ancient Greek world, that the worship of the goddess flourished. For six centuries during the
POLIS & LATCHI
By admin at January 30, 2011 | 12:38 pm | 0 Comment
Polis, which in Greek means ‘town’, is situated on a beautiful sweep of bay, with the rugged Akamas peninsula to the west and the pine clad Troodos Mountains as its backdrop. Known as Marion in antiquity, the town was probably founded by an Athenian warrior called Akamas, the son of Theseus, who arrived here after the Trojan War. Rich in gold and copper ore, it
LARNAKA
By admin at January 30, 2011 | 12:38 pm | 0 Comment
Built on the site where ancient Kition once stood, Larnaka is the successor of one of the ancient city-kingdoms of Cyprus. Kition was the birthplace of Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy and the second home of St. Lazarus, who lived here after his resurrection and later became its first Bishop. The foundation legend of Kition is associated with Kittim,
