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Faience Rhyton - Citium (13th Century B.C.)

Faience Rhyton - Citium (13th Century B.C.).

Cloudless blue skies and dark blue seas, sandy beaches and turtle abodes, pine covered forests and tranquil valleys, delightful mountain villages and hospitable villagers, ancient monuments and myth laden places are what an international tourist to…

Famagusta Gate, Nicosia

Famagusta Harbour

This set closed a chapter in the history of Cyprus stamps that did not portray the island's soul, traditions and values. It was a period where the ideal was everything British and more over that of the King or Queen. In the stamps of this period…

This set closed a chapter in the history of Cyprus stamps that did not portray the island's soul, traditions and values. It was a period where the ideal was everything British and more over that of the King or Queen. In the stamps of this period…

""Vacations"", the theme that POSTEUROP chose to be common to all member countries, immediately brings to mind travel and tourism. Countries all over the world project their tourist attractions and with people ever more ready to travel to exotic and…

The moufflon is a wild mountain sheep. Wilhelm von Boldensele undertook in 1333 a pilgrimage to the Holy Places and arrived in Cyprus from Rhodes; in his book published in 1336 he wrote: ""There are in the mountains of Cyprus wild sheep with hair…

Τhe Swiss theologian Karl Barth once said: “When the angels sing for God, they sing Bach, but I am sure that when they sing for themselves, they sing Mozart and God eavesdrops”.

In 1977, a musical sampler sent into outer space with the…