Cyprus

Culture

Our island’s cultural diversity appeals to people from east and west.

Cyprus has often been referred to as a melting pot of civilizations, and its cultural face today repeatedly proves this theory. With influences from both east and west, both ancient and contemporary, modern Cyprus presents a rapidly growing, multi-directional cultural scene.
 

  From ancient Greek drama amid the ruins of the ancient Odeon in Paphos to the Shakespeare Festival at Greco-Roman Curium theatre, from the Amathusia festival of contemporary Cypriot and Greek music and dance to jazz happenings, from pop concerts to Italian opera at the Paphos harbour, the cultural events calendar grows richer every year.