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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…

Intelpost Telefax and Terminal Mobile Telephone Service

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…

This manor house is one of the most important surviving 18th century buildings in Lefkosia. It was once the residence of the Dragoman of Cyprus, Chatzigeorgakis Kornesios, who was executed by the Ottomans in 1809. The building was restored by the…

The monastery of the Holy Cross in Omodos village, according to tradition was founded by St. Helen (337 A.D.) where she left also a piece of the Holy Rope.

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.…

One of the oldest and most important monasteries
in Cyprus. It was founded by two monks in 1148, when a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary was found in a nearby cave. During Ottoman rule it was an educational center, as were the other monasteries of…

Larnaca salt lake is one of the most important habitats
in Europe for water fowl. Scores of flamingos, wild
ducks and other water or shore fowl find refuge here
in winter on their migratory journeys.

Walking into any church or monastery in Cyprus, one will encounter icons both old and new. The word ""Icon"" comes from the Greek ""Icona"" meaning image. In the Greek Orthodox the scriptures in pictorial for m. Cyprus abounds with icons and the…

The Cyprus Folk Art Museum was created in 1937 by Society of Cypriot Studies. This is housed on the ground floor of the old Archbishopric, an amazing 15th century gothic monastery, and it consists of a large collection of 19th and early 20th…