Flamingo Beach Larnaca

... possible for the people from Greece to feel this hospitality and the personal touch - as if I am responsible for everything - but still this is how I feel because I am coming from this island and I want every single visitor coming here, to go back with the best memories ever! <br><br>The choir arrives exactly the time we expected them to be here, and Mr. Koutsoulides hands a bunch of flowers to our choir conductor. We all get in the ...

... per Era, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and Ottoman periods. It covers 9000 years of Cypriot art. <br><br>The rarest collections at the museum are the Neolithic times are pottery, the collection of Roman and Hellenistic glass and the Byzantine collection of ceramic utensils, which are decorated with the ...

... prehistoric product of the lake, which was exploited to a high degree through the centuries till a few years ago. .<br><br><br><br><br><br>REMEMBERING THE PAST- 4 or 5 Years old then.<br><br>I have from my childhood, a misty recollection of locals from the nearby village of Aradipou, forming lines one behind the other for a mile or so. These locals were riding their donkeys and ...

... every 30 meters you can see the "visiting wells" of this unbelievable project, which channeled the water of the river Tremithos to Larnaca till the 1950&#8217;s,<br><br>Many researchers and historians believe that this tremendous public work has existed since Roman times. <br><br>It was reconstructed in 1745 on the basis of the surviving facilities. It goes back to the ...

... of Larnaca developed in the Ottoman times and was designed to serve the trading needs as well as the residential needs of the wealthy merchants of Larnaca. The owner had his storehouse and office on the ground floor and his family on the first, with the characteristic kiosk over the street for good ventilation and view.<br><br><br ...

<br>LARNACA <br><br>My home town can be described as the resort with everything. <br>A major municipality, town and holiday resort all in one. A region that will amaze the visitor with its diversity and genuine hospitality of its people. There is a surprise in every corner waiting to be explored, discovered and enjoyed. <br><br>The quiet sea front of Larnaca, situated on the south-east cost of Cyprus, very near the international airport, is a ...

... of 1571. <br><br><br><br>Before that it used to be the Catholic Church of the Holy Cross. Built in the 10th or 11th century, this church was founded as an Orthodox Basilica, but, as can be observed, one of its characteristic three corridors was demolished. Its Byzantine origin is also indicated by recently discovered Byzantine wall paintings of Saint George.<br><br><br ...

... sense of reality and run back to my childhood days. <br><br>They were happy, joyful, and interesting days &#8211; us not being rich &#8211; but lived like rich.<br><br><br><br>I remember traveling a lot &#8211;inland most of the time, through the narrow hard to be driven roads up on the mountains. We used to travel long hours to get to a destination that we now ...

... about as foreign to me as the Bulgarian countryside down below. While waiting for the door to close, I wasn't subjected to a barrage of prerecorded advertising over the PA or ads plastered to the overhead bins. Rather than hawking smokeless cigarettes and two for one vodkas like on Ryanair, these flight attendants just came through quietly and handed out lunch. Whether on Ryanair, EasyJet or Aegean, it's been awesome having confirmed tickets. It's the ...

Up early again, well actually, these early mornings are killing me. Yes I am getting up at 08:00, but my body, the London one that is, states that it is actually 06:00, and without a coffee hit, life isn't the easiest, even though it's meant to be, but I do manage to struggle through it. Now back to the story Larnaka With the fall of the North, the Cypriots decided that they needed a new second largest city, and Larnaka was told to get with the program, you are now our ...