PLACE DES HÉROS

This square (Πλατεία Ηρώων/Platia Iroon, Heroes Square) is dominated by the Heroes Monument, a column created in 1948 by the sculptor Chrysostomos Perdios (1907-1987) as a tribute to the fighters of the wars of independence in Greece and Cyprus. Located on the site of the Cypriot-Turkish neighborhood of Kessougloudkia, whose inhabitants were expropriated in the 1930s, the square was the center of the city for forty years. Always very lively, it houses pleasant terraces and the Rialto theater (1933), considered the best stage on the island.