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Friday, February 26, 2010

Things To Do and Places To See - Cyprus

This is from a tourist map I got from the library of Frostburg State University.  The links provided below are not from the map; I got the links off of the internet.

Cyprus Popular Festivals
Fifty days before Easter
Limassol
Carnival

Last Monday before Lent
General celebration in the fields
Green Monday

May Day
All principal towns
Flower Festival

Fifty days after Easter
All seaside towns and Karavas
Cataclysmos

Mid- June
Larnaca
Cyprus Night

Early July
Limassol
Festival of Folk Dancing

Mid – August
Perapedhi
Agricultrual Show

Last weekend in August
Kato Mylos and Platres
Peach Festival

End of August
Prodhromos
Folk Festival

Early September
Pano Lefkara
Lace Festival

September
Nicosia
International Trade Fair

14th September
Omodhos
Fair

Late September
Zakaki (just outside Limassol)
Fig Festival

End of September
Limassol
Wine Festival

Cyprus Feast Days
January 1
Nicosia
Ayios Vassilios

January 24
Ayios Neophytos Monastery
Ayios Neophytos

February 2
Chrysorroyiatissa Monastery
Panayia (Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

March 25
Kilrou
Panayia (Annunciation)

April 23
Many villages
Ayios Yeoryios

May 21
Tokhni
Ayios Constantinos and Ayia Helena

June 28
Nea Paphos (Paphos?)
St. Paul

August 15
Kykko Monastery
Panayia (the Assumption)

September 14
Stavrovouni Monastery & Omodhos
Feast Day

September 28
Ayios Neophytos Monastery
Ayios Neophytos

October 4
Kalopanayiotis
St. John Lampadistes

Good Friday
All towns
Procession of the Epitaph

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limassol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karavas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larnaca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perapedhi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kato_Mylos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodromos_(Cyprus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pano_Lefkara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicosia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omodhos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paphos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysoroyiatissa_Monastery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokhni
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kykkos_Monastery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stavrovouni_Monastery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalopanayiotis