Cyprus/Greek Part (Cyprus)

The word "outsider" remains unknown to the inhabitants of Cyprus, with only the word "xenos" meaning guest, as hospitality is sacred to the island inhabitants.

The word "outsider" remains unknown to the inhabitants of Cyprus, with only the word "xenos" meaning guest, as hospitality is sacred to the island inhabitants.
Family and the church take centre stage in the lives of the Cypriots. The generations live alongside one another and cling to their old customs and traditions. The most important religious celebration is Easter. The Cypriots are a fun-loving nation and like to invite guests to join in the celebrations.
Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and boasts a surface area of almost 3,500 square miles, 62 percent of which has been claimed by Greece. The mountain massif of Troodos, which is famous for its variety of birds, sprawls out in the southwest. The highest peak is Olympos, which attains a height of 1,952 m. Over 9,000 years of shifting history, the island inhabitants have never lost their identity. Many peoples and cultures left their legacy and in doing so enriched the cultural landscape of the island. The pillars and subterranean dead cities originate from the Greeks whilst amphorae and the Odeon of Nea Paphos hark back to the Roman legacy. The Turks brought their mosques to the island, the Venetians façades embellished with balconies and fortified complexes, the Knights Hospitalers Kolossi Fort and, finally, the Byzantines the basilica and monasteries.