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Agia Napa Monastery
Agia Napa Monastery is the medieval archaeological landmark
of Agia Napa. The Monastery was built around 1500A.D. but
inside the old church lies a cave which suggests it may have
been used as place of worship during much earlier period.
The Monastery is dedicated to Virgin Mary because according
to a local legend, an original icon of Virgin Mary, was found
by a hunter in the cave. The Monastery originated as a women's
convent, converted to a monastery and then, in 1978, became
an Ecumenical Conference Center.
The cicemon outside the monastery is believed to be more than
600 years old. This tree with the he size has its own part
in the history of Agia Napa. Under its leaves the Greek 1963
Nobel Prize Winner wrote some of its great poems dedicated
to Agia Napa and which made famous all over the world. He
was the first one to see the real beauty of the area, when
Again Napa was just a picturesque fishing village
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