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The Geroskipou in Cyprus has a number of places to visit:

Goblet with high foot (White Slip) “Asprogi”, 1964 PDF Print E-mail

In the decades of ´60 and ´70, the archaeological pickax brought in the light evidences, which prove that Geroskipou, been inhabited from at least the Afterwards Epoch of Copper (1600 1050 B.C.).

 

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The Medieval “Water-mill” PDF Print E-mail

Is the biggest fountain of Geroskipou, and it has the largest water quantity. The traditions wants in a way, its water, as a holy water, but also and as water of Aphrodite's baths. "Kato Vrisi", is an ancient aqueduct, which from the Antiquity till the recent years, used to water and refresh human beings and animals of the area.

 

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The Down Fountain “Kato Vrisi" PDF Print E-mail
Agios Pollotzellaros and Agii Pente 2Is the biggest fountain of Geroskipou, and it has the largest water quantity. The traditions wants in a way, its water, as a holy water, but also and as water of Aphrodite's baths. "Kato Vrisi", is an ancient aqueduct, which from the Antiquity till the recent years, used to water and refresh human beings and animals of the area.

In the fountain's basins, the inhabitants of the community, used to wash their clothes. Its water, seems to be conveyed with mines, from the northern rocky hillocks of Geroskipou

 

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The Fountain of the Public Square PDF Print E-mail

Agios Pollotzellaros and Agii Pente 1Been built up on 1917, by the artist of the community Michali Konto. It has the inscription on it of:- EXPENDUTURE BY GOOD RESIDENT FRIENDS OF GEROU KIPOU JULY 25 YEAR 1917.

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The Chapel of “Agia Marina" PDF Print E-mail

The Chapel of Agia Marina

One declivity arch-covered Chapel, which is found in the place of the new cemetery of Geroskipou. Probably, this present Church, could have been built up on the foundations of an older Church.

 
"Agios Pollotzellaros” and “Agii Pente" PDF Print E-mail
The Down Fountain Kato VrisiIt is about graves, which are hewed on the rocks in the "Agii Pente" place, and during the Christian years, been evidently converted to hermitages and thereafter to adoration places, in the remembrance of these hermits. In certain big points of the rock, in the inner of the Chapel of "Agii Pente" (Afxentios, Evgenios, Efstratios, Mardarios and Orestis), are preserved wall-paintings. The naming of "Agios Pollotzeros", most probably could be composed by a remembrance, towards an unknown hermit, who lived in this cave.
 
The Sanctuary of “Apollonos Ilatou" PDF Print E-mail

The Sanctuary of Apollonos Ilatou

It is about a grave that been converted to a sanctuary, at least from the 5th century B.C.

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"Ais Giorkis” and the lineal rocky site PDF Print E-mail

Ais Giorkis and the lineal rocky site

This Historical place, composed the Chapel of "Ai Giorki" (one declivity Church), a natural water-well,

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Museum of Popular Art PDF Print E-mail

Museum of Popular Art

Is sheltered in the palace of Andreas and his son Smith or Hadjismith Zimboulaki, who from the end of the 18th century even till 1864, they used to be the Vice-Consulates of England in Paphos.

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Η εκκλησία της Αγίας Παρασκευής PDF Print E-mail
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Η εκκλησία της Αγίας Παρασκευής βρίσκεται στο χωριό Γεροσκήπου, 3,5 χιλιόμετρα ανατολικά της Πάφου. Πρόκειται για ένα εξαιρετικά σημαντικό δείγμα Βυζαντινής αρχιτεκτονικής, που χρονολογείται στον 9ο αιώνα. Δεν έχει εξακριβωθεί κατά πόσο ο ναός αυτός είναι κτισμένος πάνω σε κατάλοιπα αρχαίου ναού της Αφροδίτης.

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