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Heading up the Diarizos Valley and away from the coast,
we drove into the Troodos Mountains where the scenery
is nothing if not Xtreme. |
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The
Xtreme View Café. Cymru am byth |
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far from the Xtreme View is an abandoned monastery dedicated
to Saint Savvas (someone enlighten me please). Although
the monks have long since left but the church is still
used by the locals who place their offerings before
the icon of the saint. |
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Ayios
Savvas Monastery |
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Ayios
Savvas. Interior of Church |
Ayios
Savvas. Doorway |
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Troodos has many charming towns and villages, such as
Pedoulas in the Marathassa Valley. |
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Pedhoulas |
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are no fewer than 10 churches and monasteries in the
Troodos that have been designated by Unesco as World
Heritage Sites. One of the loveliest is Ayios Nikolaos
tis Stegis (“Saint Nicholas of the Roof”),
so called because of its double roof, parts of which
date back to the eleventh century. |
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Ayios
Nikolaos tis Stegis (Saint Nicholas of the Roof) |
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Kakopetria.
The Mill Hotel |
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