If you venture away from the tourist areas in Paphos you will find a rich variety of scenery waiting for you. The Diarizos Valley is one such destination, containing a host of historical sites and tempting taverns. About half way up it, you will find the Monastery of Saint Savvas of Karonos. It is well worth a visit, and while you are there, be sure to take in the amazing scenery.
We often get asked about the music. We can't always provide the answer but in this case it is Franz Schubert's Impromptu #4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JNRmiPBweU
Diarizos Valley Monastery
Diarizos Valley Monastery
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cyprusmax47
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Very nice drone video, Thank you Dominic.
I find this monastery even when it needs desperately renovation work much more interesting than the often promoted "Sinti" Monastery.
Evidence suggests that rather than a single undisturbed settlement, there once were two prehistoric settlements which were destroyed in the 16th and 17th centuries AC, by a series of major erosional episodes. The archaeological and ecofactual remains from one of the settlements was deposited in what was a freshwater pond. The other ended up as fill in a network of erosional gullies and in an outer series of rooms of the monastery. Further sherds and other artifacts from the area point to a number of periods of utilization of the monastery's environs from the beginning of the fourth millennium B. C. through this century.
source: University of Chicago
Max
I find this monastery even when it needs desperately renovation work much more interesting than the often promoted "Sinti" Monastery.
Evidence suggests that rather than a single undisturbed settlement, there once were two prehistoric settlements which were destroyed in the 16th and 17th centuries AC, by a series of major erosional episodes. The archaeological and ecofactual remains from one of the settlements was deposited in what was a freshwater pond. The other ended up as fill in a network of erosional gullies and in an outer series of rooms of the monastery. Further sherds and other artifacts from the area point to a number of periods of utilization of the monastery's environs from the beginning of the fourth millennium B. C. through this century.
source: University of Chicago
Max
Re: Diarizos Valley Monastery
I have to disagree. Sinti Monastery is magnificent. I love standing in the courtyard, surrounded by its looming walls.
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cyprusmax47
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Re: Diarizos Valley Monastery
I agree, Sinti Monastery is nice now after all the money Kykko Monastery have spent for renovations 1996/7. I have visited the place before that time and was very disappointed what was there.
The attached photo from 1963 shows that the Monastery was much more intact then now as everything is falling apart 60 years later.
If there was a chance the owners of the plots have the money and interest to renovate the place, it would be a great tourist attraction, where they could even ask for entrance fees.
Why the place is divided by 20 or so plots only God knows...
Max
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Trouble is, access isn't that easy, and most people just aren't that interested in stuff like this.
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