Frangiorgio Hotel Apartments Larnaca

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BEWARE

AVOID going to ZAKOS Restaurant in the Makenzi area!



I would advise tourists –especially foreigners to avoid eating at–ZAKOS Beach Restaurant.

The restaurant is in this area of Makenzi, and we are brought here by the coach driver. It is very late in the afternoon, and we are hungry, after the day trip and tour we ...

... and Cythera in Greece were the prominent places where Aphrodite was worshiped. The Roman goddess, Venus has quite often been related to the Greek goddess, Aphrodite. One of the most powerful among the various Greek Gods and Godesses, Aphrodite had the charm and elegance, which she used, to get whatever she wanted. For some she was ruthless, while for others she was caring. With all these great acts to her credit, she has been rightly regarded as one of the greatest Olympian divinities.

... Era, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and Ottoman periods. It covers 9000 years of Cypriot art.

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 ...

THE AMERICAN ACADEMY IN LARNACA (1974 graduation)



The school was founded in 1908 by the Foreign Mission Board of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America but was given in the late 1970's to the alumni of the school who govern it through an elected council and two representatives from the local Evangelical community.



The school motto 'to grow and to serve" underlies the philosophy ...

... to become acquainted with the authentic character of the city and to have an invaluable introduction to the long history and traditions of Larnaca in an enriching and entertaining way. These guided walking tours also give the atmosphere and taste of everyday life, its craftsmen and commercial activity.



The tours do not include visits to the museums or churches of Larnaca ...

... from the 1st arches (about 2-3 kms) you arrive at the 2nd arches, and after a walk of almost the same distance, (but having to pass the airport-by pass highway-) you arrive at the 3rd and lower arches. At this point you have to look for the old mill, which pumped the aqueduct's water.

Then for 9 kilometers up to the river, the water –channel goes underground ...

... The best surviving examples of this architecture in Larnaca are a) Ieronymos Varlm House on Chryssopolitissa Street, b) Efthimiades House at Nicolaou Laniti Street, c) the Larnaka Club opposite Pierides Museum on Zenonos Kitieos Street.

Similar buildings survive in the Skala Turkish quarter along Piale Pashia Street.

THE CASTLE OF LARNACA

(The Medieval Museum of Larnaca found on the 2nd floor of the castle).



The earliest reference to the construction of the Larnaca Fort is 1380 A.D. During the Ottoman occupation a new renovation was made dating 1625 A.D. It was used as a prison, as it was during early British rule. It is now used as a local Medieval Museum, and ...

LARNACA It is July, and we have come to the Island I love again. We are spending 3 nights in a nice hotel in Larnaca, enjoying the sunshine, having some quick visits to relatives, but mostly we are on the beach. The reason I am at this hotel this time is because I enjoy the early morning jogging by the beach. People from Larnaca, as well as tourists walk early in the morning and late in the afternoon ...

... sit out and tan in. It is only Spring here and 25 - 30+ degrees! Have already had ripe watermelon but too early for grapes, figs and pommegranites. On the topic of food...for you sweet AND savoury lovers, they have the most amazing bakeries here that cook 24 hours a day. I go in there and want to buy 5 of everything they look (and taste) so good. So quite often I would go down and buy bags of stuff to take back to my relatives...not that ...