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Virgin Mary and Elizabeth (St. John Monastery Lampadistis)

The wall paintings for this Christmas issue emanate from the Church of the Holy Cross of Agiasmati in the Troodos hills near the village of Platanistasa. Dedicatory inscriptions in the church inform us that it was built by donation of the chief…

Virgin and Child . The wall painting of the Archangel Gabriel and Christ Emmanuel forms part of a much larger painting where it appears just below a choir of twelve prophets who foretell Christ's coming to earth. The message is then taken up by the…

The European Postal and Telecommunication Organization specified "Musicians and Composers" as the theme for the Europa issue of 1985. The main traditional musical instruments in Cyprus were and still are the violin, the lute and the flute, which…

Village House

Vasilis Michaelides (1850-1917) Greek Cypriot poet was born at Lefkonico and lived a difficult life full of privations. As an adolescent and a young man alongside a char ming father and a man of God, he moved to Dhali, Larnaca and Limassol where he…

The prosperity that the population has been enjoying these past two decades has been marred by the continually escalating number of road deaths and injuries, in spite of road safety campaigns and the daily viewing of horrendous accident scenes on…

This western style dress based on the "phoustani" (see the 1994 Cypriot Costumes set) reached Cyprus from Greece at the end of the 19th Century as a variant to the so - called "Amalia" national Greek dress. The ensemble comprises a pleated white…

The earliest forms of long distance communications without resorting to human messengers must have been the ""smoke signals"" of the American Indians and the ""talking drums"" of the African people. Mankind has come a long way since then. In our…

U.E.F.A. Silver Jubilee