Cool pine-covered mountains in the middle of Cyprus, with ten UNESCO-listed Byzantine churches with beautiful frescoes hidden in simple barn-like buildings, and villages such as Kakopetria and Omodos. The Kykkos Monastery is the richest in Cyprus, with a gilded church.
Walk the Artemis and Caledonia waterfall trails near Mount Olympus, the island's highest peak. In winter there's skiing. The churches have varying opening hours; ask locally for the key.
A sheltered bay of turquoise water on the wild Akamas Peninsula in north-west Cyprus, reached by boat from Latchi or by 4x4 along a rough track.
An ancient city on a cliff top above the sea west of Limassol, with a restored Greco-Roman theatre still used for performances, overlooking the beach…
A UNESCO-listed site by the harbour of Paphos, with some of the finest Roman mosaics in the Mediterranean, in the floors of four grand villas, showin…
Cyprus's second city, with a medieval castle, where Richard the Lionheart is said to have married Berengaria in 1191, and a lively old town of shops …
The last divided capital in Europe, split since 1974 by the UN buffer zone, the Green Line.
In the north of Cyprus, under Turkish Cypriot administration, Kyrenia (Girne) has a lovely horseshoe harbour guarded by a Venetian castle, which hold…
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