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Fiammetto Rocco, in her book "The Miraculous Fever-tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World" tells us how in 1723 ten years after the death of six cardinals from "Malaria" i.e. bad air, of the Roman marshes, a Jesuit priest in Peru…

Satyr (Silenius)

The wine "Commandaria" one of the best known for centuries derives its name from the Commandarie of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem who had settled at Kolossi.

The first modern winery was built in 1893 in Limassol and by 1943 there were four major wineries supplying to the European and world markets. In the 1980s small wineries were established with a capacity of 50,000 to 300,000 bottles a year while the…

This stamp depicts a jug of Bichrome ware decorated in the "freefield" style with a bull sniffing a lotus flower.It belongs to the Archaic Period (750-650 B.C.) and was discovered at Arnadi.It is now in the Cyprus Museum in Nicosia.The Archaic Period…

The depiction shows King George V and Kolossi castle. Kolossi castle is a medieval castle built in the 15th century A.D. It is also known as Koulas. The donjon lies in the vicinity of the village of the same name in the south-western outskirts of…

The intellectual history of Cyprus and its contribution to the European intellectual history may be attributed to all those distinguished Cypriot poets, writers, archaeologists and men of letters from the celebrated Stassinos to Costas Montis and the…

In 45 A.D. the Apostles Barnabas and Paul arrived in Cyprus to preach Christianity. They succeeded in converting the Roman Proconsul Sergius Paulus at Paphos, thus making Cyprus the first country to be governed by a Christian. St. Barnabas was the…

In 45 A.D. the Apostles Barnabas and Paul arrived in Cyprus to preach Christianity. They succeeded in converting the Roman Proconsul Sergius Paulus at Paphos, thus making Cyprus the first country to be governed by a Christian. St. Barnabas was the…

Peristerona Church