Theme Week Cyprus – Mount Olympos
Thursday, 27 August 2015 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Royal Air Force radar station on Mount Olympus © Alaniaris/cc-by-sa-3.0
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Olympus, or Chionistra, at 1,952 metres (6,404 ft), is the highest point in Cyprus. It is located in the
Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. Mount Olympus peak and the “Troodos Square” fall under the territory of
Platres in
Limassol District . A British long range radar currently operates at Mount Olympus’ peak.
The Troodos mountain range stretches across most of the western side of Cyprus. There are many famous mountain resorts, Byzantine monasteries and churches on mountain peaks, and nestling in its valleys and picturesque mountains are villages clinging to terraced hill slopes. The Kykkos Monastery is the richest and most famous monastery. Nine churches and one monastery in Troodos together form a World Heritage Site, originally inscribed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO in 1985.
Royal Air Force radar station on Mount Olympus © Alaniaris/cc-by-sa-3.0
Writing in the late first century BC of first century AD, the geographer
Strabo reported that on one of its promontories was a temple to
Aphrodite of the Heights, which women were forbidden to enter.
The Mount Olympus Ski resort consists of the Sun Valley and North Face areas. Each area has its own chairlifts and runs. There are 4 ski slopes:
Aphrodite or Sun Valley I, Length: 150m, Level: Beginner
Hermes or Sun Valley II, Length: 150m, Level: Intermediate
Dias/Zeus or North Face I, Length: 500m, Level: Advanced
Hera or North Face II, Length: 350m, Level: Beginner
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