The mirror of the past the path for tomorrow
I felt like nothing changed, like the time still being the same
I had so many years to see and listen this beautiful company
and as I wrote in the video
from my heart I dedicate this to Mitso Anagnostopoulo was the best bouzouki
who left us for heaven’s concerts
and to all those beautiful years of mine back in Greece who I participated
in this amazing mood… which I miss a lot”
Thank you
The deplorable living conditions of the enclaved Cypriot’s can be demonstrated by the simple recounting of their numbers following the Turkish invasion of 1974.
In July of that year the Greek Cypriot population of the area presently occupied by the Turkish army was 162,000. By the time the second phase of the Turkish invasion had been completed, in August 1974, 142,000 Cypriots were expelled or forced to flee, leaving 20,000, mostly in the Karpas peninsula (Report S/11488 of the UNSG to the Security Council dated 4 September 1974).
During the next four months, another 5,000 were forced to leave, resulting in a reduction of the Greek Cypriot population of the occupied area by 91% (Report S/11568, 6 December 1974, para. 43).
According to the latest report of the Secretary General to the Security Council this number has diminished to 427 Greek Cypriots and 165 Maronites (S/1122, 30 November 2001, para. 8).
The situation today seems better the enclaved are almost 350 people, the students in school of Rizokarpaso are only 19
On 24 of June in the school parents, students and official guests celebrated the closing ceremony of the school year
(EDITING by Slaviana Chekirova)
In the village of Prodromos at Troodos mountain there is the famous abandoned hotel of Verengaria!
The Verengaria hotel was built at the early 20th century and soon became famous around the middle east!
It was a truly a unique hotel with top of the class facilities and service which along with its architecture and location boosted its fame.
The hotel had a night club, huge dinning rooms, playgrounds, casino, bars and other extras which added to its success as it was a pioneer for that time.
Its famous guests like Pharouk, the King of Egypt and Ezer Vaisman president of Israel along with the elite of the business and show world of the time, gave the hotel the nickname “Hotel of Kings”!
The name Verengaria on the other hand was the name of the queen of Navarre (Berengaria), and wife of Richard the Lionheart, King of England.
They got married in Cyprus on May 12, 1191.
Closed early of 80’s and the 88 rooms hotels became a legend, nowadays the visitors are coming to identify by themselves this old impoverished and ruined aristocrat with the many legends and ghosts
I am sad, today is a “rainy” day for me I learned the death of a man who just met a few years before
but it was in my heart like a member of my little family.
He was the doctor who brought my daughter to light,
was the man who refused to take my money because at that time I was poor economic
was the obstetrician who gave birth says half Greece (60,000 babies),
Had the morals of humanity and kindness not characterize
unfortunately the majority of today’s doctors.
I remember his smile in my fears,
I remember the hours of waiting his unique jokes in a hospital
that was literally his second home
My daughter, is fortunate to be one of the Dimitris Chasiako’s babies
Every year on her birthday, we had and have a seat for you at the table of memory and joy.
My Doctor bon voyage, now you can relax, You won your place in Paradise
I found this spot accidentally it was a huge surprise for me because I had never
imagine the existence of this unique heritage and was hidden so perfect from the public, why???
I admire the hospitality of the workers without them, perhaps I couldn’t never understood how lucky I was
Khirokitia Culture (7000-5800 B.C), or the Recent Aceramic Neolithic of Cyprus, results from a long process which began in the 9th milennium, if not before.
Excavations on the site, which is included in the World Heritage List of UNESCO, began in 1936 under the direction of Porphyrios Dikaios, then Curator of the Department of Antiquities, and since 1976 have been continued by a French Archaelogical Mission under the direction of A. Le Brun.
The settlement stretches over the steep slopes of a hill and is enclosed within a wall which has been uncoverered in the East and North (Wall 100). With the partial abandonment of the northern slope and extension to the West, the settlement takes a new configuration defined by a new enclosure wall (Wall 284).
The constructions are circular with flat roofs in the form of a terrace. A house constitutes the grouping of several of these circular constructions around a small inner “courtyard” with an installation for grinding grain.
Flint or bone tools and receptacles made of stone or basketwork were used in daily life.
The deceased were buried in pits cut into a floors of habitation units. Some of them were accompanied by stone vessels and necklaces.
The nutrition needs of the inhabitants of Khirokitia were met by animal husbandry, hunting, cultivation of plants and gathering of wild fruits.
The site was abandoned around 5800 B.C. It was reoccupied from 5000 B.C by people of the Sotira Culture who knew and had mastere the art of pottery.
When groups of citizens from Cyprus and abroad, working together in a spirit
of cooperation and trust for the rescue, protection, and promotion and when their motto is:
“Keepers of Each Other’s Culture”
They can do miracles like the restoration of The main church of Kontea village is
dedicated to Agios Charalambos
This was the only large church in the whole of the Famagusta region dedicated to Agios Charalambos
and it was therefore a very popular gathering point for the celebration of the SaintΒ?s feast day
every February 10th
The United Nations, through the United Nations Development Programme, at the beginning of 2006
called for proposals for the restoration and maintenance of endangered monuments all over Cyprus.
The programme aims in contributing towards co-operation and trust between the communities through working together on issues of common concern.
Historically the village of Kontea is related to the mansion which existed there from the time of
the Franks. During the French occupation the mansion was the residence of a high-ranking officer
called Viscount. The name Kontea is therefore foreign and it originates from that time;
Kontea village is situated in a favorable position on the southeastern side of the Mesaoria plain,
between the three main cities of Famagusta, Nicosia and Larnaca. It was originally a Frankish fief,
gradually growing into a village with the influx of people seeking work in the fertile land of what
later came to be known as the Frankish ciftlik.
The whole human history there is in a museum.
The Museum of Cyprus, you in your first steps there and while you have no sooner put the ticket in your pocket, you enter the Stone Age and transferred through the time machine exhibits until the Byzantine period,
you really feel and wander on centuries heritage of this little dismayed by the economic crisis island of about 800,000 inhabitants.
What a great weapon in the hands of rulers for advertising this historical island
