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Walks in Cyprus

9 walks in Cyprus — Agia Napa, Episkopi, Gazimağusa, Kouklia, Larnaka, Lefkosia, Lemesos, Pafos, Troodos. Each one comes with a map, stories, and questions you answer from what is around you.

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🏺 A History of CyprusThe island where a goddess was born of the foam, which gave copper its name, and which is still divided — ten thousand years in twenty minutes of reading.

Agia Napa

Cyprus: From Ayia Napa to Cape GrecoA monastery around a sacred fig tree, sea caves, a natural stone arch that wedding parties named, and a cape where the fishermen say a sea monster lives.8.5 km · 270 min

Episkopi

Cyprus: Kourion and KolossiA theatre above the sea that is still playing, the mosaics of a family killed in an earthquake, and a tower from which the richest estate on the island was run.3 km · 240 min

Gazimağusa

Famagusta: Gothic Behind Venetian WallsA cathedral that became a mosque, a tower named after Shakespeare, and a ghost town where nothing has moved since one August day.3.4 km · 210 min

Kouklia

Cyprus: Aphrodite's Rock and PalaipaphosThe place where the goddess of love was born out of sea foam, and the sanctuary where she was worshipped for a thousand years without a single statue.2.6 km · 210 min

Larnaka

Cyprus: LarnacaThe man who died twice, a lake that is pink with flamingos in winter and dazzling white in summer, and a mosque people come to for the quiet.7 km · 260 min

Lefkosia

Cyprus: Nicosia, the last divided cityA star-shaped fortress the Venetians built and lost within a year, a street that ends in sandbags, and a border you can walk across.3.6 km · 240 min

Lemesos

Cyprus: LimassolAn English king's wedding caused by a shipwreck, a pod they called black gold, and the oldest wine still made in the world.3.3 km · 180 min

Pafos

Cyprus: PaphosFloors the Romans walked on, a column where St Paul was supposedly flogged, and tombs cut into the rock for people who were never kings.4.5 km · 240 min

Troodos

Cyprus: TroodosAn icon nobody is allowed to look at, a piece of ocean floor pushed three kilometres above the sea, and churches that look as though a barn had settled on them.5 km · 300 min