Archaeology tour in Cyprus, 5 days 4 nights

We’ll meet Larnaka airport  for a “Welcome to Cyprus” meeting. Enhance your travel experience with this Full Day  excursion . Throughout the tour, you will visit the archaeological site of Idalion, in the Dali Village area, is one of the most important sites in Cyprus, with many of its rich findings now exhibited in some of the most renown museums of the world, Lefkara for Lunch among its interesting sites are the Folklore Museum, the old fountain and the old olive mill. The village also has beautiful and ancient chapels, including the church of Timios Stavros (Holy Cross), and the chapel of Archangelos Michael in Kato Lefkara, with frescoes that date from the 12th and 15th centuries. , Archaeological Site of Choirokoitia, the Neolithic settlement of Choirokoitia, occupied from the 7th to the 4th millennium B.C., is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the eastern Mediterranean witch its remains and the finds from the excavations there have thrown much light on the evolution of human society in this key region.  

check in Limassol 4 Star Hotel / Buffet Dinner 

The archaeological remains of Kourion are by far the island’s most important historical discoveries. As one of Cyprus’ most prominent city-kingdoms of antiquity, Kourion was built on a hillside that overlooks the southern coast and its ruins date back to the Roman and early-Byzantine periods.The Sanctuary of Apollo Hylati lies west of Kourion and is one of the most important sanctuaries of ancient Cyprus.

A short drive from Aphrodite’s birth place you’ll find the archaeological site of Palaipafos (Kouklia) with the Sanctuary of Aphrodite. In the Centre of the site, a thick stone wall still stands strong, thousands of years after it was built here. Around it, the ground is dry and a few trees give the area shade.

Tomps of the Kings .The monumental underground tombs are carved out of solid rock and date back to the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Paphos Archaeological Park is one of the main tourist attractions on the island. In spring, it’s a colorful sight, with hundreds of crimson poppies showing their pretty heads between the ruins of the ancient city including HAUS OF Dionysus  

The Cyprus Museum, the country’s first archaeological museum, boasts a series of collections that span the early periods of human settlement on the island, from the tenth millennium BC through to the Roman period and early Christianity.

The large archaeological site has unearthed the temple of Aphrodite, two majestic royal tombs, as well as several smaller ones. Six oversized limestone statues dating back to the 6th century BC, when Cyprus was under Egyptian rule are now exhibited in the Cyprus Archaeological Museum in Nicosia.

Kakopetria is undoubtedly the most famous village in Cyprus offering many options for dining, coffee, accommodation and other activities. The cosmopolitan Kakopetria is bustling daily and is located in the southwest of Nicosia. It is built at the foot of the Troodos Mountains, on the north side of the mountain range, in the Solea Valley at an altitude of 667 metres

The mining history of Cyprus has linked its name (Cyprus) to copper (Cuprous). Copper production in Cyprus began before 3000 BC. and vertically integrated. The exploitation of the copper ore of Skouriotissa is lost in the depths of the centuries, possibly dating to the Chalcolithic period.

The Fukasa deposit was identified and partially exploited by the ancients. This is documented by piles of ancient rust (around 2,000,000 tons), as well as by ancient caverns found during the exploitation of their field in recent times. At the entrance to one of the main caverns of the mine, large piles of fragments of amphorae of Roman times were found.

Cyprus’ mining history began around 4,000 BC with the production of copper. The people who lived on the island thousands of years ago were incredibly skilled metalworkers. The lucrative orange metal (cuprum in Latin) was even named after the Greek name for Cyprus (Kúpros). During the Roman era, the metal extracted from the earth there were able to satisfy nearly all of the empire’s copper requirements.

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