Nicosia·Monday, September 21, 2026
Cyprus Lifestyle
The Island, At Its Best
Photo: UnsplashWhen the clubs close, another town steps forward.
The reputation arrives before you do: neon, noise, the long summer of the young. But come in November and the same streets belong to fishermen and grandmothers, to a monastery courtyard and a sea the colour of glass.
There is a case, quietly gaining supporters, that this is the real town, and the summer merely its loud cousin. The restaurants that stay open know it. So, increasingly, do the visitors who plan around the crowds rather than with them.
Regional analysts have begun mapping scenarios in which Turkish military assets in occupied Cyprus become targets in any future Israeli-Turkish confrontation, prompting Nicosia to tighten its own defensive posture.
Modest stone barns from the outside; inside, some of the finest Byzantine frescoes in the world.
Cyprus called itself the birthplace of the goddess of love long before the tourist boards did — and the landscape still makes the case.
The week on the island, chosen and written by our editors — property, culture and the good life, in one considered email.
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