Larnaca Attractions

PIERIDES MUSEUM
Zenon Kitieos 4, TeI: (04) 651345, 652495
Remarkable private exhibition of Cypriot antiquities, originally collected by Demetrios Pieridis (1811-1895) and further enriched by members of his family.

THE BUST OF KIMON
At the seafront promenade. The Athenian General Kimon led 200 triremes in 450 BC to free Cyprus from the Persians. He died while he was besieging Kition. 

LARNAKA DISTRICT ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Plateia Kalogreon TeI: (04) 630169
Interesting collection of finds from the Larnaka area dating from the Neolithic Age to the Roman period.

KITION
Approximately 500 m. northeast of the Archaeological Museum.
One of the most important ancient city- kingdoms, with architectural remade: dating back to the 13th century BC. In about 1200 BC it was rebuilt by the Mycenaean Greeks, and excavations have revealed cyclopean walls made of giant blocks of stone, and a complex of five temples.  

AGIOS LAZAROS CHURCH
Plateia Agiou Lazarou
Saint Lazarus is the patron saint of Larnaka. Kition became his second home after his resurrection by Christ. He was ordained Bishop of Kition by Saints Barnabas and Mark. In the 9th century a magnificent church was erected over his tomb by emperor Leo VI. The church, one of the finest examples of Byzantine architecture in Cyprus, was faithfully restored in the 17th century, and the iconostasis is an excellent example of baroque woodcarving.Also Visitors can see an ecclesiastical museum behind the church.

HALA SULTAN TEKESI
3 km west of Larnaka on the road to Kiti, passing the Larnaka Airport.
Built in 1816 over the tomb of Umm Haram, allegedly a relative of Prophet Mohammed who died on this spot in 649 during the first Arab raids. The mosque is an important place of Moslem pilgrimage ranking immediately after the shrines of Mecca, Medina and AI Aqsha in Jerusalem.

KAMARES AQUEDUCT
Kamares area on the Larnaka - Lemesos road.
A beautiful 18th century aqueduct which was in use until 1930. 

KALAVASOS-TENTA
40 km from Larnaka, 2,5 km off the Lefkosia -Lemesos road.
Tenta, one of the most important Neolithic settlements in Cyprus lies near the village of Kalavasos.

ANGELOKTISTI CHURCH
Kiti village 11 km west of Larnaka.
Angeloktisti means 'Built by the Angels'. This 11th century Byzantine church was erected over the ruins of an Early Christian basilica. The original apse survived together with one of the finest pieces of Byzantine ad, a rare 6th century Mosaic of the Virgin Mary and Child between the two archangels, which rivals the Ravenna Mosaics. 
 
ROYAL CHAPEL
Pyrga village, 35 km south of Lefkosia, 32 km from Larnaka.
Built by the Lusignan King Janus in 1421, it contains a wall painting of the king with his wife, Charlotte de Bourbon, on one of its walls. It is considered one of the most interesting structures surviving from the Frankish Period.