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Agios Terapon on the hill.

Agios Therapon

Agios Terapon is located among the wine-growing hills of Limassol District. The small settlement is named after St. Ferapont, with whom a local tradition connects the source and…

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Académie Forest Park in Aglandia; further down the Nicosia neighborhoods.

Aglantzia

Aglandia rises on the hills southeast of historic Nicosia. The residential quarters here are adjacent to forest parks, cultural sites and the university environment; the relief differs markedly…

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Agros in a mountain basin.

Agros

Agros is located in Pitsilia at an altitude of about 1100 meters. Its houses rise up the mountain slopes with an amphitheater, and the gardens and rural workshops…

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Akrotiri village on the territory of the British SBA.

Akrotiri

Akrotiri — village on the peninsula of the same name, on the territory of the British sovereign base. Its geographical connection with Limassol is close, but its sovereign…

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Alona and the mountain landscape of Pitsilia.

Alona

Alona is located in high-mountainous Pitsilia at an altitude of about 1200 meters. The settlement is surrounded by gardens, hazelnut and cherry trees, and the narrow streets and…

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A bicycle ride in the Rizoella Forest Park on the territory of Aradippou.

Aradippou

Aradippou almost merged with the urban development of Larnaca, but in the old center retains its own character. Low houses, a church square and taverns are adjacent to…

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Arakapas and surrounding slopes.

Arakapas

Arakapas belongs to the mandarin villages of the north-east of the Limassol District. Here, the semi-mountainous slopes, riverbeds and fruit plantations create a rural landscape that is markedly…

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Arsos among the green slopes.

Arsos

Arsos is located among the wine slopes of the western part of the Limassol district. Its compact neighborhoods, stone houses and tiled roofs retain the image of a…

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Ascas among the green slopes of Pitsilia.

Askas

Askas clings to the steep slope of Pitsilia over the river valley. Stone walls, winding passages and tiled roofs are built here into a dense building that repeats…

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Church of St. Auxivius in Astromeritis — Monument of the old village center.

Astromeritis

Astromeritis is located in the flat part of Nicosia District, near the road to Solea. Fields, citrus areas and old rural houses show the transition from Mesaoria to…

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Avgorou.

Avgorou

Avgorou — large rural community of Kokkinochoria. Fields, stone houses and church buildings here show another eastern Cyprus: agricultural, family and closely associated with seasonal labor.

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