Troodos Mountains
Troodos is the biggest
mountain range of
Cyprus, located in the center of the island. Troodos' highest peak is
Mount Olympus at 1,952 meters.
Troodos mountain range stretches across most of the western side of Cyprus, offering cool sanctuary and idyllic hours spent in long walks in its scented pine forests in summer and winter sports and ski-ing in winter. There are many famous mountain resorts, Byzantine monasteries and churches on mountain peaks, and nestling in its valleys and picturesque mountain villages clinging to terraced hill slopes. There are 9 churches in Troodos that are counted among
Unesco's
World Heritage Sites and several monasteries, of which the
Kykkos monastery is the most famous and rich. The nine
Byzantine churches are:
* Stavros tou Ayiasmati
* Panayia tou Araka
* Timiou Stavrou at Pelendri
* Ayios Nikolaos tis Stegis
* Panayia Podithou
* Assinou
* Ayios loannis Lampadistis
* Panayia tou Moutoula, and
* Archangel Michael at Pedhoulas.
The area has been known since ancient times for its mines, and in the Byzantine period it became a great centre of Byzantine art, as churches and monasteries were built in the mountains, away from the threatened coastline.
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Louvaras*
Palaichori*
Kourdhali*
Pelendri*
Galata*
Kalopanayiotis *
Moutoullas*
Pedhoulas*
Omodhos*
Phini*
Koilani *
Agros*
Kakopetria*
Prodromos*
Marathassa Valley*
Monte Korfi*
Geography of Cyprus
