Travel Guide Tsada

Situated well inland, at an altitude of 600 m, along the B7 road to Polis, Tsada offers a beautiful panorama of the Paphos coast. Nestled around its 19th-century Panagia Chryseleousa church, the village is renowned for its wines, the freshness of its alleyways, its three old stone fountains (Gerolakkos, Rodio and Pigadia) and its local hero, Evagoras Pallikarides (1938-1957), an EOKA activist who was hanged in Nicosia by the British. From the Greek Cypriot uprising for independence (1955-1959), the area also preserves the terrible little Polemi detention camp, which can be visited. Today, Tsada is under another form of British occupation. Her Majesty's wealthy subjects own villas here or come to stay in the vast residential and leisure complex of the Minthis golf course: a verdant 18-hole course, hotel, villas, swimming pools, restaurants and... ecological nonsense when you consider that Cyprus is plagued by water shortages and soil erosion. Finally, near the nearby village of Stroumbi, the SODAP cooperative operates the Kamanterena estate, one of the country's leading wine producers.