Cypress tree of Kathikas

 

Cypress in Kathikas
(Cupressus sempervirens)

With a girth at breast height of 4.35 m and 14 m in height, this tree is approximately 700 years old. This is an evergreen tree with  a broad or narrowly conical crown and a grey bark lightly fissured. It has small
scale-like leaves arranged in opposite decussate pairs. It is native to Cyprus and often found in calcareous precipices and slopes in many places of the island and mainly in the Pentadaktylos massif. In 2017 it was declared protected.

 

Rock at Episkopi Pafos

A huge limestpne cliff of about 70m tall at the Episkopi valley, Cyprus.
The cliff was formed when the river of Ezousa "ate away" at the rock and a huge earthquake made it collapse. The rocks that fell from the hill (some still visible at the side of the road) forced the river to change its course

Geroskipou square

Geroskipou square

St Lambrianos catacombs at Paphos

Situated just across the st. Solomonis catacombs
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/cyprus/pafos/attractions/agios-lambrianos-rock-cut-tomb/a/poi-sig/1434904/358813

peyia sea caves 1

Kelefos (tzelefos) medieval bridge 1

Kelefos Bridge is a medieval Venetian bridge crossing the Dhiarizos river in the mountains of Paphos in Cyprus. It is located at the borders of Phini, Agios Nicolaos and Pera Vasa close to the Arminou Dam. This one arch stone bridge has 10.70 m span and 10.7 m width.

During the Cyprus's Venetian period (1489–1571) copper, mined in mountains, was traded with Egypt for silk and gold. The demand of quality trading routes resulted in construction of dozens stone bridges in mountains, used for camel trails connecting distant mines in Troodos Mts. with ports on the island's seashore...

The Arminou dam as seen on the way to the bridge

Diarizos river

Kyriaki church and ruins at Ppahos

This Church was built around 1500 AD as a Latin Church on the site of a small church which was destroyed in 59 AD by an earthquake. About 100 years after its construction and following the Turkish invasion of 1570, it became the Byzantine Cathedral of Kato (Lower) Paphos.