EU funds Byzantine monuments’ restoration

NEARLY 800 thousand euros will be spent renovating two Byzantine monuments, the department of antiquities has announced.

Agia Marina at Kandou and Panagia Kofinou will receive a 784,800 euro facelift as part of an EU-funded programme to renovate middle Byzantine monuments in Cyprus and Greece. Thirty-four projects were selected altogether at a total cost of 31million euros. Eighty per cent of the funds will be provided by the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union, the remaining 20 per cent is from government funding.

Excavations in the surrounding areas of the monuments began on July 25 and August 8, while the two monuments’ restoration works are currently being prepared.

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