Cyprus

A UNESCO World Heritage Site Neolithic settlement on a hillside above the Maroni River, with reconstructed circular houses and archaeological excavations dating from the late seventh millennium BCE, offering a rare window into the earliest phases of settled agricultural life in the Eastern Mediterranean.

An ancient city-kingdom perched on a dramatic limestone headland above the Mediterranean south of Limassol, with a Roman theatre rebuilt in the second century CE, Roman villas with mosaic floors, a fourth-century baptistry and an early Christian basilica.

An active eleventh-century monastery in the Troodos Mountains, famous for housing an icon attributed to Saint Luke the Evangelist, with rich interiors, a mountain setting and a museum of Byzantine art and manuscripts.

A seasonal coastal wetland of approximately 2.2 square kilometres near Larnaca city, designated an EU Natura 2000 site and a critical stopover on the African-Eurasian migratory flyway, famous for its wintering greater flamingo populations and its proximity to the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Paphos, famous for its exceptionally preserved mosaic floors, the underground Tombs of the Kings necropolis, and a medieval castle at the harbour.

Two massive sea stacks of pale limestone rising from the Mediterranean near Paphos, legendary birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite, on the southern coast of Cyprus.