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Serene and content this old grandmother wiles away the hours stitching the white needle lace known as "Pipilla". She is sitting outside the gates of the garden entrance to her home in the village of Omodhos. During spring and early summer the cobbled…

Windsurfing at Paphos

Kyrenia (poem)
I Admired your looks and your dense hair
The sea mirrors your looks every day
The Mountain - your husband - is right to be jealous
Embracing you, he won’t let you go
For you’re the best of the daughters of…

Chamaeleo chamaeleon

Nowadays, the Larnaca salt lake is nothing more than a beautiful safe haven in winter for migratory birds, the most prominent of which are the flamingos. Fra. Francisco Suriano, in his manuscripts of 1484 kept in the communal library of Perugia,…

Travelers visiting Cyprus in the 15th, 18th, and 19th centuries recalled how the land from Limassol to the Cape of Cats (Cape Gata) produced so many reptiles and snakes about two or three feet long whose bite was said to be mortal, that the…

Mauremys caspica - gmelin

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…

Travelers visiting Cyprus in the 15th, 18th, and 19th centuries recalled how the land from Limassol to the Cape of Cats (Cape Gata) produced so many reptiles and snakes about two or three feet long whose bite was said to be mortal, that the…