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Η φωτογραφία αποστάληκε ως ταχυδρομική κάρτα στον εξάδελφό του, στρατιώτη του Κυπριακού Συντάγματος αρ. 542 Μιχάλη Παπαχριστοδούλου, με…

Οn 20th July 1974 Turkey invaded Cyprus. But instead of restoring the legitimate government as envisaged in Article 3 of the Cyprus
Treaty of Guarantee, it resorted to divide the island with the result that about 200,000 people had to flee from…

The three icons of this year’s Christmas issue together with another 169 ecclesiastical treasures which had been looted from churches in the North were repatriated in November 2013 from Munich, Germany, after many years of legal battles.

The 64c…

Τhe Prince of Venice is the Cypriot folk tale of the King of Pafos and his three daughters. It is a tale where love, jealousy, evil intentions, magic, determination, repentance and courage unfold to bring a happy ending to the King’s youngest…

Costas Montis was born in Ammochostos in 1914. He studied law at the University of Athens but never practiced as a lawyer. He had a varied career as a teacher, poet, journalist, editor and as Director of Tourism from 1960 to 1976 when he…

Αutumn, the season from September’s equinox to December’s solstice, is when the leaves of deciduous trees begin to turn red, yellow and brown before falling and carpeting the ground below. The beauty of autumnal foliage is a sight to behold…

Τhe Mediterranean, encompassing the continents of Western Asia, North Africa and Southern Europe, and connected to the Atlantic Ocean, is almost completely enclosed.

For 10,000 years it has been instrumental in the rise and fall of civilizations…

Δominikos Theotokopoulos famously known as “El Greco” was born in 1541 in Candia, Crete. As a young icon painter
he left his native land c.1567 and travelled to Venice. There he adopted Catholicism and probably became a pupil of Titian. He…

Mankind’s desire to express the joys of life, the mourning of loved ones or to gyrate in rituals and festivals brought about the invention of the very first musical instruments now lost in the distant reaches of time. In time, the instruments…

Τhe 34c stamp of the Europa issue illustrates a flute known as the “Pithkiavlin” in the Cypriot dialect. Archaeological excavations in Cyprus unearthed clay idols from the 7th and 6th centuries BC playing the flute and other instruments, thus…