Spilia Folk Art Museum
The Spillie Folk Art Museum preserves items from a traditional Cypriot home. It was organized in 2005 by the local association “Proodos”, collecting furniture and household utensils familiar…
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The Spillie Folk Art Museum preserves items from a traditional Cypriot home. It was organized in 2005 by the local association “Proodos”, collecting furniture and household utensils familiar…
Spur-winged lapwing — contrasting shorebird with a black and white head and a loud voice. Often it is first heard and only then noticed.
Strovolos occupies most of the southern urban agglomeration of Nicosia. Its old center, the Pedieos River and a network of parks show the other side of the capital:…
Maple is much more modest than the large maples of European cities. Its small dense leaves are often divided into three shallow blades, and the plant itself can…
Politico has preserved the stone tombs of the rulers of Tamassos — An ancient city whose well-being was associated with Cypriot copper. The underground rooms look like front…
Above the settlements of Tamassos, the Pedieos River is held by a dam. Behind the engineering wall there is an open water space, and downstream continues the path…
The name Teisia tis Madaris refers to high rock protrusions similar to walls. Here the trail encircles the stone bastions, behind which open forests, valleys and a distant…
Terpentine Pistachio — small tree or large shrub with compound leaves. In the mixed vegetation of Maheras and Adelphi, it adds a seasonal change of colors to the…
Teucrium cyprium — low fragrant half-timbered with a thick whitish swelling of the leaves. It is easy to pass without noticing among the stones and dry grass.
From the Asinu Church, the route goes to the forest foothills to Agios Theodoros Soleas. Acquaintance with the painted temple here continues a walk through the surrounding mountain…
This mountain trail rises to Madari through a pine forest and open slopes. As the height grows, the trees part, giving way to distant views of the interior…
Cypriot thyme forms low fragrant bushes on rocky slopes. Among the pines and oaks of Adelphi, it represents a different scale of the forest: dense greens are kept…