Lofou village is located 26 km northwest of Limassol. It is built amphitheatrically on the hills at an altitude of 800 meters. It is a village which in recent years managed to attract local and international attention for the cultural events organized in it. Indeed, the annual Festival of Lofou has received the European distinction EFFE (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe).

Of course, the village’s - mostly elderly - inhabitants in the census of 2001 were counted on the fingers of a hand. After World War 2 the village begun to experience a terrifying fall in the number of its residents. The villagers moved primarily to Ypsonas. Basically, during the period 1946 -1986, Lofou had been abandoned by its residents.

The community that numbered 578 inhabitants in 1881, ended up with just 6 inhabitants in the census of 2001. Fortunately, however, during the last 10 years there has been a reversal of this image. The village has managed to multiply its population to 50 residents. Most importantly, still, the majority of these are young people.

Since last Sunday, a young man – really young actually - is the President of the Community, the 22-year old Nikos Spyrou. Nikos Spyrou was born in 1994 in Limassol and raised in Ypsonas. For the past 5 years he was an active member of the Association of Lofou Emigrants, while he was vice president of Lofou Youth Center for the period 2013 - 2015. His election to the office makes him the youngest president of a Community Council on the island and has a great symbolic meaning for a village that seems to have been reborn from its ashes.