CYPRIOT ARCHITECTURE PANORAMA 2012

Overview

Cyprus is undoubtedly among the cradles of world architecture and town planning, given it possessed human settlements of a permanent character from as early as the first period of the Neolithic Age. It never ceased to be a field of incursions and interventions so that its architectural heritage includes settlements, ancient Greek, Hellenistic and Roman monuments, Byzantine and Frankish churches and monasteries, Frankish and Venetian forts, Ottoman mosques, and numerous specimens of more recent residential vernacular, where the influences of previous architectural traditions have been assimilated. This architecture has been adequately published and is well enough known.