Cyprus Top Ten Highlights

Nicosia Walled City

The divided city within medieval ramparts is full of interest. With a clutch of museums, historic buildings, a lively morning market and authentic cafes and restaurants, it merits a leisurely visit. Find out more about Nicosia Walled City

Cyprus Museum, Nicosia

This superb museum has a collection of finds from ancient and medieval sites all over the island. Click for more information about the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia.

Agia Napa

Agia Napa has a reputation as the liveliest spot in Cyprus, with great beaches, water sports and huge number of bars, cafes and restaurants catering to every taste.

Pierides Foundation Museum

Located in Larnaca and founded by a 19th century philanthropist to rescue Cyprus's vanishing heritage, this collection consists of remarkable ancient idols to early 20th century peasant costumes. Find out more here.

Ancient Amathous

It takes little imagination ot conjure up an image of Amathous in ancient times from the fragments of walss that still remain, but this hillside temple site, just a short distance from the busy coastal highway, is proof of the city's glorious past.

Historic Limassol

Narrow market streets full of food stalls and craft workshops surround the Limassol medieval castle in the heart of the old quarter. Mosques and minerats are reminders of the island's multicultural history.

Kourion

The multi-tiered stone theatre of ancient Kourion is often the summer setting for concerts; when not is use it offers views over the peninsula.

Troodos Painted Churches

The plain stone walls of these old Orthodox sanctuaries, hidden in the remote valleys and glens of the Troodos mountains, conceal a unique treasury of vividly coloured frescoes depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments.

Kato Paphos Archaelogical Park

The superb mosaics that adorned the floors of lavish villas built at Paphos in its Roman Imperial heyday are now part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today they are one of the island's top historical attractions.

Akamas Peninsula

The hillsides and headlands of the Akamas Peninsula form the islands last undeveloped frontier. Here, on Cyprus's only deserted beaches, turtles come each year to nest.