Historical Places
Ayios Minas Church
Saint Minas Church, built in 1843, is a building, which has two passageways, which are divided by heavy pillars.There is a large early 18th Century icon there, depicting Saint Minas on a horse. Ayios Minas parish church lies in the east of the town. The church was erected in 1843. Ayios Minas was born in Egypt. He was a soldier in the army of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. He converted to Christianity. Subsequently he followed the monastic life. He outspokenly preached the Christian faith. For this reason he was brutally tortured by the pagans who in the end decapitated him. His remains were buried in Lake Mareotidha in Egypt, where Arkadhios constructed a magnificent temple. In this same parish high up on an imposing rock lies the Chapel of Ayios Yeorghios Spiliotis ST George the Caveman.
Ayios Theodoros Church
Saint Theordoros Church was built in 1834. There are two giant white pillars in its courtyard embossed with Byzantine crosses. In the 17th Century gallery, there are two pairs of finely painted holy doors.
Ayia Anastasia Church
Saint Anastasia, is a modern church that has an extravagant number of icons adorning its walls. There are three large icons dating back to 1772, which previously belonged to the old church. Here, there is a weel-preserved Bemada, and a boundary stone made of limestone, and a Seleukion grave stone, embossed and decorated with grape stone, embossed and decorated with grape vine branches. The imposing parish church of Ayia Anastasia, constructed at the end of the 19th century lies at the summit of the citadel of ancient Lapithos. Ayia Anastasia Farmakolytria lived during the reign of the Roman Emperor