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Rent a car and stay at pissouri and travel around Cyprus.
The picturesque village of Pissouri is located in the province of Limassol Cyprus thirty kilometers west of town, halfway through Limassol - Paphos. It is the third largest village in the administrative area of the province. To the south extends to the sea and is built in the green, on a hillside, just three kilometers northwest of Cape Aspro.
One version says that it took its name from the ancient city "Voosoura" mentioned by ancient istorikogeografo Strabo and placed limits on the Pissouri area. Another version connects the name of village events to nights kataskoteines. (In the Cypriot dialect, "Pissouri" is very dark). One tradition says that the 300 "Alamanos" saints who came to Cyprus from Palestine to askitefsoun in various parts of the island, arrived in the bay of Pissouri such kataskoteini night. Another tradition says the flight of the Holy Fathers, who persecuted in the early years-Christian meeting in a dark area at night. Ultimately, it is believed that the interpretation of the name of the village is simple. Once produced in pitch and so the village got its name. The pitch pine to be produced in the region during the Byzantine period and during the Frankish period.
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