Kykkos Monastery
The principal monastery in our family route is associated with the tradition of a miraculous icon, repeated fires and a rich museum collection.
Regions
Troodos and mountain routes
Mountain roads lead to painted churches, monasteries, villages and museums. We treat Troodos as a historical landscape in its own right, where distance from the coast helped preserve art and traditions.
Machairas Monastery
The narrow mountain road, imperial patronage and the icon of Panagia Machairiotissa made this one of the most personal journeys in our family archive.
Timios Prodromos Mesopotamou Monastery
The name “Mesopotamou” reflects the monastery’s position between two rivers in the mountains near Pano Platres.
Panagia Trooditissa Monastery
A narrow road leads to a monastery whose history is associated with an icon hidden during the period of Iconoclasm.
Panagia Phorviotissa — Asinou
We include Asinou for one of the most powerful ensembles of wall painting in Cyprus.
Panagia tou Araka at Lagoudera
We include Panagia tou Araka as one of the most important churches of Byzantine Cyprus.
The painted churches of Troodos — a UNESCO route
We include a separate route through the ten painted churches: it is one of the best ways to see the development of Byzantine and post-Byzantine painting on the island.
Saint John Lampadistis at Kalopanagiotis
We visited the complex at Kalopanagiotis, where the architecture and wall paintings allow several artistic and historical layers to be compared.
Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis — Saint Nicholas of the Roof
We include the church as a clear example of a Cypriot mountain church protected by a large pitched timber roof.
The Venetian bridges of Troodos
We include the Tzelefos, Elia and Roudia bridges as a way to see the history of trade in the landscape rather than in a museum.
Cyprus Railway Museum at Evrychou
We include the former station so that the British period can be seen not only through politics but also through everyday movement around the island.