Limassol Museums

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Lemesos District Archeological Museum
Address: Near old port
Tel.: 00357-25330419
Opening hours: Monday-Saturday 9-17; Sunday 10-13
Interesting collection of antiquities found in Lemesos area from Neolithic Age to Roman Period.

Municipal Folk Art Museum
Address: Agiou Andreou 253
Tel.: 00357-25362303
Opening hours:
Monday-Friday 8:30-13:30; Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri 15-17:30
(June-September 16-18:30)
A beautiful collection of Cyprus Folk Art of 19th and early 20th century is exhibited in a restored old house.

Kourion Archeological Museum
Address: 14 km west of Lemesos, 4 km before Kourion Site, at Episkopi village
Tel.: 00357-25430008
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 9-14:30
Largest collection of icons on the island, covering the period from 9th to 18th century AD. The Art Galleries contain oil paintings, maps and lithographs.

The "Petra Tou Romiou" (Rock of the Greek), or the Rock Of Aphrodite (as known in English), is a scenic place, located off the old Pafos-Lemesos road. Digenis Akritas, a legendary Greek hero, threw a large rock to the Saracen ships to secure Cyprus from them. This rock today stands as the Petra Tou Romiou leading to the above translation as the Rock of the Greek. It is said that this is the place that Afrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, was born, and arose thought the white sea-shore foams.