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Centuries ago, the Greeks and the Romans understood the magic of this herb. Hippocrates, (c460-377 BC) father of medicine, used it as an antiseptic and today, in Greece, it is used as a palliative for a soar throat. Greek oregano has a deeper more…

Oregano is a common specie of the Origamun dubium and belongs to the mint family of herbs. It is a perennial herb growing 20-80cm tall with 3-4mm long purple flowers that are produced in erect spikes. Sometimes it is called wild marjoram. The popular…

Ιn 1807 the Irish musician and song writer Thomas Moore wrote: “You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will; but the scent of the roses will hang round it still”.

The English poet Ernest Dawson wrote in 1896: “They are not long the…

Some 130 million years ago when the earth looked drab and desolate an explosion of flowering plants transformed life with their brilliance, array of colours, shapes, sizes and scents. Wild flowers as well as roses grew in open fields, forests, plains…

Cyprus’ geography and environment are the main reasons why the island has such a rich variety of flora. Today there are 140 types of endemic flora, some of which are spread widely around the island and others that grow only in the Troodos mountain…

The Common Chaffinch, the European Greenfinch and the European Goldfinch belong to the family Fringillidae. Their special characteristic is the big conical beak used for crushing and peeling seeds, which are their basic food. They nest in Cyprus and…

Archbishop, Ethnarch and first President of the Republic of Cyprus, Makarios III was an eloquent orator with an imposing personality. He was born Michael Mouskos on 13th August 1913 in the village of Panayia in Pafos and he was admitted to Kykko…

Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France in 1809. He was blind from the age of three but this did not deter him from joining the Institution of the Young Blind in Paris when he was ten years old. He studied organ playing and became professor of the…

There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies all over the planet. To date, 54 different species have been recorded in Cyprus, 9 of which have been recognized as endemic, meaning that they live only in Cyprus. Butterflies are directly…

Carnival is humanity’s oldest folk festival.
Ηistorically, the tradition of carnival refers to the Dionysian feasts of the Greeks, where people used to dress up, dance and sing, drinking wine to honour God Dionysos.
The carnival officially…