Pafos Regional Board of Tourism has recently joined Culture and Heritage for Responsible, Innovative and Sustainable Tourism Actions (CHRISTA), a new European Union (EU) programme concerning cultural tourism.

With the aim to promote and preserve the customs of the island, Ayia Napa Municipality successfully organised the annual Flooding, Fish and Water Festival, on June 02 —05, which took place at the city’s graphic port.

As part of the International Children’s Day, on June 01, Ayia Napa Municipality in cooperation with the Ecological Elementary School-Antonis Tsokkos and the Ecological Kindergarten of Ayia Napa, is organising the 23rd Children’s Festival, on May 28.

In celebration of the International Museum Day and European Night of Museums, on May 18 and May 20, respectively, the Department of Antiquities, Ministry of Transport, Communications and Works, together with the Cyprus committee of the International Council of Museums have launched a programme of engaging events for the family, themed Museums and Contested Histories: Saying the Unspeakable in Museum.

First established by UNESCO in 1983, this year’s International Day for Monuments and Sites, on April 18, was themed Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism.

Renewed research conducted at the Tombs of the Kings, one of the most important archaeological sites in Cyprus, suggests that rather than kings, it is actually high ranking officials and aristocrats who were buried at the site.