The small, abandoned settlement of the Venetian Empire on the island of Cyprus, carrying the name of an administrative region of southern Italy, Drapia, is another “monument” of residue.

It is built on a hill slope, northwest of the village of Kalavasos, halfway on the road taking you to ...

Kalavasos is found at about forty kilometres southwest of the city of Larnaca. It is built on the western shore that was formed by the Vasilikos river, and it dominates the valley of the river. A valley that is green and has orange trees as well as other citrus trees and wild vegetation. Due to t...

The Mosque of Kalavasos is built in a very beautiful green neighbourhood. Being next to the Greek Orthodox church of Panagia Titiotissa, it witnesses that Christians and Muslims lived peacefully with one another.

Even though the Mosque was abandoned in 1967, when the Muslim settlers of Ka...

In the centre of the Kalavasos village, in the same surrounding space with the Livereio elementary school, inside the narrow stone built streets, the church of Panagia tis Titiotissas or Panagia Theotokos is built.

The name of “Titiotissa” came from the Tetios river, that was renamed to V...

At the entrance of the Kalavasos village, parallel to the riverbed of Vasiliko, we can observe the “Maria” community park. 

It is a small park that includes: a play place, benches and a water tap. There is also a train placed on its rails, that are found on the bridge above the river...

On the 19th of April 2012, just after the dam’s overflow, that only happened 14 years after its inauguration, the Mukhtar of Kalavasos, Lefteris Foka announced “Seventeen million, four hundred thousand cubic metres of water, have sufficiently ensured irrigation of rural cultivation for the next f...