A small village at the entrance to Limassol is rapidly transforming. A modern park for adults and children appeared here surrounded by dozens of attractions, and nearby are places for games, coffee and entertainment.
The Botanical Park of the Fasula is located on a section of 2100 sq.m. They began to equip this place in 2021 with a budget of € 700,000. There is a playground in the new park, a cafe where you can buy drinks and SNECs, as well as a football field. Around the cafe are equipped with bike paths, pedestrian trails and green zones.
Botanical park on the map.
Temples and church monuments Fasula
In addition to the new park, the village of Fasula can offer visitors to familiarize themselves with historical attractions. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1920, is located in the very center, this is the main temple of the village (on the map). In the southwest there is a dilapidated church of St. George, which used to be the main temple of a small monastery. In the north of the village there is a temple of St. Marina, built in 1940-1960. Finally, in the cemetery stands the temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Khriselius, which was declared a historical monument and was taken under the protection of the Department of Antiquities. The remarkable, although the modern church is dedicated to the Martyrs of Rigin and Orest, popular on the island. Next to her is the tomb of St. Rigina (on the map)
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Museums and archaeological heritage of the hill of Zeus
There is an agricultural museum in the village, where agricultural tools used by local peasants are represented. Museums are also valid: ethnographic, rye wood, photographs. In the south-west of the faculi, about 800 meters from the center, there is an important archaeological point-the Kastos area. It was here that people who came to this part of the island first settled. At the top of a small natural elevation was the temple of Zeus Lavraania, thanks to which this hill is still called the peak of Zeus (Greek - Korphy Tu Dia). Archaeologists have discovered ten processes from ancient statues with inscriptions in the ancient Greek. All of them are dated to the 2nd century AD
Finally, in the faculty you can visit the Museum of Sculpture Filippos Yapanis - one of the advanced museums of contemporary art in Cyprus (on the map)
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