The Pierides Foundation Museum houses an extraordinary private exhibition of Cypriot antiquities, originally collected by Demetrios Pierides (1811-1895), a Cypriot academic and archeologist, and...
The capital of Cyprus, Nicosia, the only big town in the interior of the islet, grew up in the seventh century A.D. on the theater of antique Ledra. It was chosen as the administrative hub of Cy...