Limassol Wine Festival | August 28, 2009 to September 6, 2009 | Organised by Limassol Municipality
Cyprus’ wine capital Limassol lives up to its reputation as a party town with a Wine Festival that it hosts every year. Held at the Municipal Gardens, just across from the coastal promenade, in late August, early September, this event has [...]
One of the two Yiorkeion towers in Nicosia is being transformed into a luxury apartment complex, with no expenses being spared.
The new complex will include spas, jacuzzis, swimming pools and private services. The Yiorkeio’s location is unique in the sense that despite being completely central in Nicosia, its surroundings are quiet and peaceful. Adjacent to [...]
The 12th European Dance Festival kicked off last week, promising a tighter more cohesive schedule, with performances in Limassol and Nicosia.
This is the twelfth year that the European Dance Festival will take place in Limassol, and for the first time in Nicosia. So far, it has been characterised by numerous dance performances of great range of style [...]
The changing face of Larnaca’s palm-lined seafront, Phinikoudes.
This is the place to sit to watch the world go by, sipping a coffee at a pavement café. Larnaca’s palm trees, which were planted in 1922, today stand majestic and tall. The seafront, along Athenon Avenue, once scattered with fishing boats drawn onto the shore, small open [...]
As the cars squeeze bumper to bumper promoting affluence on wheels and faces at the steering grow longer and longer, and sadder too, think of somewhere quiet. The Troodos Mountains, for instance.
A lavish new book, “Byzatine Architecture in the Troodos Mountains”, is full of lovely drawings, sketches and watercolours by leading Cyprus architect Andreas Philippou. [...]
Now approaching his 81st birthday, Antonis Anastasiou has been throwing open the doors of his pretty taverna in Larnaca, Cyprus, for longer than he cares to recall.
After unfastening the wooden shutters he pauses momentarily to deadhead his bright pink geraniums and breathe in the smell of sea spray mixed with tobacco smoke and fried [...]
At the Larnaca’s Palm Trees Promenade seafront | June 6 to 8 | Holy Sporit’s Greek Orthodox religious annual feast
A unique Cypriot celebration, the Festival of the Flood, “Giorti toy Kataklysmou” as it is otherwise known in Greek, coincides with Orthodox Church’s religious feast of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit, celebrated annualy and is marked by festivities at all seaside [...]
