03 Νοέ 2023
In his book The Island of Cyprus, written in the 1760s, Abbe Giovanni Mariti writes about the madder of …
27 Οκτ 2023
The streets in one part of the city are long and straight and many of the houses are well built …
20 Οκτ 2023
September 17. I returned early to our vessel and stopped on the way to see a Greek Church in the …
13 Οκτ 2023
A manuscript has surfaced lately titled “Historic and Entertaining Letters on the Past and Present Conditions of the Island of …
06 Οκτ 2023
On 23 January 1835 having secured letters of introduction from the American consul Mr. Marino Mattei for the Governor and …
29 Σεπ 2023
"Though the language of Cyprus is said to be more corrupt than of any other part of the east where …
22 Σεπ 2023
"And so, conversing together we arrived at the abbey of S. Nicholas. It is close to the sea, and …
15 Σεπ 2023
"Wonderful is the position or location of this cross in its place. It is in a niche dimly lighted, both …
08 Σεπ 2023
"And because through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ Who permitted me to do so I saw all the …
01 Σεπ 2023
Benedetto Bordone was a native of Padua, an astronomer and geographer, and of great skill as an illuminator of MSS. …
25 Αύγ 2023
Felix Faber, a Dominican monk of Ulm, made and recorded two pilgrimages to the Holy Land. He started …
18 Αύγ 2023
Pero Tafur, a Spaniard of illustrious lineage, travelled to Cyprus sometime between 1486 and 1489. What he saw …
11 Αύγ 2023
In the fifteenth-century notes on Cyprus from the De Terra Sancta et Itinere Ihierosol, by Ludolf von Suchen, …
04 Αύγ 2023
The Abbot Benedict, of Peterborough, in his Chronicle under the title Oesta Regis Henrici IL et Ricardi, describes …
28 Ιούλ 2023
Jacobus de Verona, an Augustinian monk, left Verona May 7, 1835, embarked at Venice May 29, visited Gypms, preached …
21 Ιούλ 2023
Wilhelm von Boldensele or Boldensleeve (Otto von Neuhaus) deserted the Dominican Convent of S. Paul at Minden, and undertook in …
14 Ιούλ 2023
The author of a journey to Syria was born in 946 and has a short reference to Cyprus:
07 Ιούλ 2023
At the close of the nineteenth century, Magda Ohnefalsch Richter, a German visitor to the island, who claims she …
30 Ιούν 2023
The back of beyond offered the exotic and it was precisely this that caught the attention of Etheldred Allen, …
23 Ιούν 2023
The Augustinian monk Jacobus de Verona, in Cyprus in July 1335, was impressed by the wines which, he …
16 Ιούν 2023
Mrs Peto does not only immortalise the beauty of Cypriot women in her book Malta and Cyprus, 1929, …
09 Ιούν 2023
The romantic Esme Scott- Stevenson, wife of Kyrenia commissioner in 1879, painted a colourful picture of a Cypriot …
02 Ιούν 2023
The author, Christopher Furer, a man of distinguished lineage and some learning, was born in 1541, began his travels …
26 Μάι 2023
William Turner, Esquire, was attached in 1812 to the staff of Sir Robert Liston, His Majesty's Ambassador to the …