Verdi’s La Traviata comes to Paphos castle
SHE IS marked by her sinful past and struck down by illness, she courts controversy and for many is a symbol of society’s hypocrisy. But this September, Paphos celebrates the story of Violetta Valery as she rises from the pages of the Alexandre Dumas novel and comes alive in Verdi’s best loved Opera, La Traviata.
At the centre of The Rule of Four are four Princeton University roommates approaching graduation and an ancient text called the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. It’s an extremely rare 15th-century book written in several languages, full of secrets, puzzles, and clues that are supposed to lead to a treasure buried in a vault in Rome.
All Aboard
For a truly breathtaking swim, you can’t beat a boat trip around the Akamas
At home, Cyprus’ ambassador from Serbia and Montenegro is better known as an author
Eleni Antoniou burns the fat in a 30-minute workout
IS THERE really a need to visit the gym three times a week for at least one hour each time? Women, and men for that matter, flock into gyms, morning, noon and evening working their bottoms off to achieve a Jennifer Aniston or Brad Pitt figure. And the worst thing is, all that effort might be in vain.
Make sure of a decent meal by following our food guide
YOU’RE in Paphos for your holidays, far off your usual beaten track and one of the highlights of a good holiday is always a decent meal, but where do you go? In among the tourist tat, there are plenty of places to grab a meal to write home about. Here’s a selection
Limanaki Restaurant
August. Try to talk to anyone in Nicosia in August. Impossible. They’re all gone. It is as if the life stopped for a month – a dead end.
Which one are you?
Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston are all over the news at the moment. We show you how to recreate their looks
To Psarolimano O Philippos
Fresh fish
In its third home, Nicosia’s oldest fish tavern arguably remains its best
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
