The hills of Limassol, inside the low bushes and the sharp rocks, hide some mysterious locations, with wild beauty and rich history. Many of these hills west to Limassol, in a small distance from the city, have been carved and used centuries ago as tombs or, later on, as catacombs for the first Christians of the island.

Such a hill is the one that hosts the ancient kingdom of Kourion. East to the hill, on its foot, one can find a series of carved tombs, which look like large windows on the rocks from afar.

A similar image is also found at the hills of the forest area at Pissouri, where such a cove, carved in the rock, which previously used as a religious area for Christians, is now the shelter for a rare kind of fruit bat. Fruit bats eat flowers and fruits, contributing to the dissemination of their seeds in the forest.

Source: Manos Botrini, Cyprus from air