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Situated directly on the beach and featuring magnificent views over the blue Mediterranean Sea, The Amathus Beach Hotel is a member of “The Leading Hotels of the World”. This luxury 5-star hotel has been designed as an idyllic retreat and landscaped surroundings and 4000 sq. m of lush garden. Amathus Beach Hotel Limassol is an elegant facility offering excellent services and an impressive range of facilities.

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The Londa Beach Hotel is a ameliorated fashionable  hotel situated in Limassol, Cyprus.Provided with breathtaking vistas to the  Mediterranean Sea, this elegant 68 room retreat is next to the old town of Limassol and Limassol’s tourist zone as well. Limassol is a place plenty of culture, stylish shops and joyful nightlife.

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Known as one of the most elegant and luxurious hotels of the Mediterranean, Anassa is a marvellous place for a holiday. Set within its own landscaped gardens and vineyards, it looks across one of the finest beaches in Cyprus to the Akamas peninsula. Means “Queen” in classical Greek, the hotel mixes a classical architecture with a natural beauty of the island creating a perfect spot for your wonderful holiday.

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The island of Cyprus is an ideal place for a relaxing holiday with excellent boutiques spas and magnificent natural beaches. The Rock of Aphrodite is a major tourist destination of the Cyprus. With a breathtaking view of the sea, it is considered to be the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

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Cyprus is beautiful island located in the Meditterranean Sea, south of Turkey. Almyra Hotel is magnificent hotel in Pafos and it is situated in eight acres on the Pafos beachfront. Pafos is a unique historical sity in Cyprus and also a birthpalce of Aphrodite, the Greek goddness of beauty.

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The Kykkos monastery, which lies 20 km west of Pedoulas, is the most famous monastery in Cyprus. The Kykkos monastery was founded in 1092 by the by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and is dedicated to Virgin Mary and known for an icon of the mother of God believed to have been painted by St. Luke. The excursion to Kykkos Monastery is a main attraction. It is now the richest monastery in the island and possesses one of the three surviving icons ascribed to Saint Luke.

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Lala Mustafa Pasa which was constructed between the years 1298-1312 in the Lusignan period is one of the most beautiful Gothic structures of the Meditteranean region. The Lusignan kings would be inaugurated as the King of Cyprus at the St. Sophia Cathedral in Nicosia first, and following this they would be crowned as the King of Jerusalem at the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Famagusta. These ceremonies continued to be held until 1571 when the cathedral was turned into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks.

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With a long history involving everyone from the Greeks and apostles to the Crusaders and Ottoman Turks, Cyprus is positively brimming with fascinating and historical religious sites. Paphos is a coastal town in the southwest of Cyprus. In Antiquity two locations denoted Paphos (Old Paphos and New Paphos) which left its mark in history with number of houses excavated and several beautiful mosaics revealed.

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