Traditions, festivals and the Cypriot calendar, from Tsiknopempti to Christmas villages in the Troodos mountains.
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For 2026-27 the Deputy Ministry of Tourism has named nine Christmas Villages: Agros, Deryneia, Fikardou, Kakopetria, Kalopanagiotis,…
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Christmas in Cyprus is a warm-weather, family-oriented festive season that runs from mid-November to early January. The island's…
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Ohi Day ("No Day") on 28 October marks Greece's refusal in 1940 to let Mussolini's troops enter the country, the moment Greece entered the…
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Easter is the most important religious and family holiday in Cyprus and follows the Greek Orthodox calendar, so it often falls on a…
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Nicosia is the centre of art in Cyprus, with the A. G. Leventis Gallery, the State Gallery of Contemporary Art and NiMAC in a former power…
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For Christmas and New Year 2026 the most expensive flights from Cyprus are on the days public schools break up and go back (school…
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The olive harvest in Cyprus runs from late October in the lowlands to January in the hills, and most families pick by hand, with rakes or…
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Every February, Cyprus villages celebrate seasonal produce. Arakapas in the Limassol district holds its Mandarin Festival on the first…
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Tsiknopempti, or Fat Thursday, is the last major meat feast before Lent and marks the start of the Cyprus Carnival season. The name…
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Cyprus has festivals all year: Epiphany and mountain snow in January, carnival and Green Monday in late winter, Orthodox Easter in spring,…
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Cyprus has three UNESCO World Heritage sites: Paphos (inscribed 1980), the Painted Churches in the Troodos Region (1985, extended 2001)…
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Kataklysmos, the Festival of the Flood, marks Orthodox Pentecost, 50 days after Easter, and is celebrated with week-long seaside fairs,…
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Kourion is one of Cyprus's most important ancient city-kingdoms, on a clifftop about 19 km west of Limassol on the road to Paphos. Its…
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Kykkos Monastery is Cyprus's best-known and wealthiest monastery, at 1,318 m in the western Troodos beyond Pedoulas. It was founded around…
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Limassol Carnival is a ten-day festival that starts on Tsiknopempti and ends with the Grand Carnival Parade on the Sunday before Green…
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The Painted Churches in the Troodos Region are ten Byzantine and post-Byzantine churches and monasteries with wall paintings from the 11th…
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