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According to legend, Aphrodite, one of the twelve Olympian Gods, Goddess of love, beauty and fertility was born of the sea-foam on the shores of Paphos. The stamp depicts the birth of Aphrodite by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli.…

Year after year they fly thousands of miles without refueling until they alight at the Larnaca salt lakehaving missed the international airport. They are our winged travellers the flamingos whose arrival during the winter season is always considered…

Intelpost Telefax and Terminal Mobile Telephone Service

From a historical, geographical and cultural point of view, Cyprus has throughout the centuries been at the extremity of and connected to Europe by European dynastic rulers as well as trade. It is therefore understandable that the Government of…

President Makarios in his address to the United Nations on 7th October 1975 said: ""In today’s small world, values and fundamentals such as peace, freedom, cultural and economic justice are essential. In addition cooperation between peoples and…

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…

Demetrios Lipertis (1866-1937)

This fresco of the Adoration of the Magic is from the Church and Monastery of St. John Lampadistis in the village of Kalopanayiotis which is 2,350 feet above sea level on the North side of the Troodos Mountains. The monastery complex comprises…

From a historical, geographical and cultural point of view, Cyprus has throughout the centuries been at the extremity of and connected to Europe by European dynastic rulers as well as trade. It is therefore understandable that the Government of…

This fresco is from the Church and Monastery of St. John Lampadistis in the village of Kalopanayiotis which is 2,350 feet above sea level on the North side of the Troodos Mountains. The monastery complex comprises several buildings including the…