InTouch Magazine Articles Archive

Issue 21, August 2008

Omodos

By John Adams.

Take a 1,000 year old village, preserve its quaint narrow streets and old stone built houses, add a venerated and spectacular monstery, sprinkle it all with star dust and you have OMODOS! Nowhere in the Troodos Mountains offers the attraction that Omodos can and does.

It is an ancient village built around the ‘Timous Stavros Monastery’ - Monastery of the Holy Cross.
Way back in the mists of time, the people of the ancient village of Koupetra (now gone) could see what seemed like a small fire burning at night on the opposite side of the valley. At the site of the light they found a small cave containing just a small wooden cross. Nothing else, just the cross. They realised the significance of this phenomena and created a chapel over the cave and the cross.

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