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Snow on Troodos Mountains

The Pierides Museum is the oldest private museum in Cyprus. It is housed in the ancestral Pierides family home, a colonial style building built in 1815. The museum’s comprehensive collection was assembled by the Pierides family and includes some of…

Personification of Autumn- House of Dionyssos, Paphos

25th Anniversary of the Republic, Coat of arms

About 3 km outside the village of Platanistasa there is the renowned church of Stavros tou Agiasmati, a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site. It retains the most complete cycles of mural paintings of the second half of the 15th century.

In 1955, following many years of diplomatic efforts when Great Britain never accepted to discuss the question of self- determination (its answer was always a curt " the subject is closed"), and the United Nations for years did not make a stand, a…

During a recent trip to the supermarket in the neighborhood where we had just moved, an elderly lady approached me and politely asked if I could read her a label as she had forgotten her glasses. I did so with pleasure and she proceeded with her…

In the 20 years since its independence, Cyprus has had to provide significant improvements in the life of its citizens in spite of the destruction in 1974 resulting from the Turkish invasion, occupation of 37% of the land and appropriations of large…

Ophrys Alasiatica - Ενδημικό φυτό

83rd Inter-Parliamentary Conference