North of the old city centre of Kiti that belongs to the Larnaca district, a hundred metres west of the Church “Panagia Angeloktisti”, you will find the remains of the Venetian stone built bridge.
We searched to find information about the monument. Unfortunately no one knew anything about the bridge, but the fact that the residents of Kiti is called “pathkia tis Panagias” (the footstep of the Virgin). The only thing left are two arches, the one greatly bigger than the other found quite high from the riverbed of Tremithos.
Even though the bushes and reeds have literally buried the bridge, it is obvious that it continued to bridge the river with another one or two arches. Vertically to the arches that still remain today, there is a wall built with great rocks following the west shore of the river for a long distance.
Its construction seems to be flood protecting, but not from the side where the river is, from the side of the field. In addition, the height of the wall from its base until the top is not justified, since Tremithos is one of the smallest torrents of Cyprus and its capacity in terms of cubic metres of water is limited.
The bridge was probably used mainly as an irrigating system. The central arch may have been closed in some way so as to stop the flow of the river into the sea. When the water level reached the height of the two small arches, it was guided to the fields nearby, where the settlers planted seasonal vegetables.
When the fields quenched their thirst, they liberated the passage of water and it flowed into the sea.
Whoever visits the monument, he will realise that it is part of a very intelligently designed and built project with a log of imagination. Unfortunately it is abandoned and lost among bushes and reeds, surrounded with luxury mansions.
We do not know why it has been left to decay and be destroyed, and furthermore we do not know where the big rocks that made it up have gone. We hope that another monument found next to it was not built from them.
We believe that if the progressive council of the village had the authority and the means, they would embellish it and deliver it to the Cypriot and foreign visitors of the progressive community of Kition, since it is a historical monument of Cyprus and history belongs exclusively to the People.
