Discover Cyprus
Work out where you’d actually want to live.
Six districts, each a different life. The beaches, the mountain villages, the tavernas and what the year feels like — before any of the paperwork.
Six worlds within one island
The lifestyle layer
Warm sea in November. Snow on the mountain in February.
The same island, forty minutes apart. Cyprus is small enough to swim before work and eat dinner in a stone village at eight hundred metres — and old enough that the walk between them passes three UNESCO World Heritage sites. This is the part of the decision nobody puts in a spreadsheet, and the part everyone actually moves for.
Older than almost anywhere you have lived
Three UNESCO World Heritage sites, on an island you can drive across in a morning.
Not a museum you visit once. The painted churches are working parish churches, the Paphos mosaics sit under the town people do their shopping in, and Choirokoitia is a Neolithic village you can walk through on a Sunday.
The Tombs of the Kings, Kato Paphos · our photographPaphos
Mosaic floors, royal tombs and the remains of the Roman capital — spread through a town that never stopped being lived in.
UNESCO World Heritage · list no. 79
A painted-roof church, Troodos · our photographPainted Churches of the Troodos
Byzantine churches under steep timber roofs, frescoed inside, scattered across the mountain villages. Most are still in use.
UNESCO World Heritage · list no. 351
Choirokoitia
One of the best-preserved Neolithic settlements in the eastern Mediterranean — round stone houses you can walk between.
UNESCO World Heritage · list no. 848
Going out111 placesJudged bar rankings, seven categories of venue, and very serious coffee.
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Food & drink59 placesThe village grill and the dry-aged steak, forty minutes apart.
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Wine & Commandaria11 wineries · 7 routesThe oldest named wine in the world, on vines phylloxera never reached.
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Sport, sea & snow19 spotsSki in the morning, swim by lunch — and the Zenobia below you.
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What's onUpdated hourlyThe ministry's own calendar, live, plus the festivals the country stops for.
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The Cyprus year12 months, chartedSix months of swimmable sea. Snow on the mountain in February.
Open →What your money is worth here
Cyprus is on the euro. When you are costing a move, this is the quickest way to sanity-check a rent, a salary or a one-off fee against the currency you actually earn in.
Where the island writes about itself
We do not rank restaurants or bars — other people do it better and have been doing it for two decades. These are the lists worth reading, and they are not ours.
Cyprus Eating Awards
The island's long-running restaurant awards, now in their 22nd year — 90 nominated restaurants across 15 categories. The closest thing Cyprus has to a national good-food list.
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Tell us the shape of your move and we will put the district, the timeline and the people you need to speak to in the right order.
Before you pick an area
Start from what places actually cost.
Every measured neighbourhood in Cyprus on one map, priced per square metre from live listings. It is the data the rest of this site is built on.