The Kyrenia mountain range is part of the Alpine system, the greatest mountain belt in the world, which extends from the Pyrenees in Spain to the Swiss Alps, through to the Himalayas and Burma. All these mountains are associated with volcanoes and earthquakes.
Kyparissovouno is the highest mountain range spanning 1,023 meters high. The second highest mountain is Boufavento at 995 meters. Pentadactylos is third at 741 meters.
These rocky rises of earth have attached to them a number of picturesque villages, churches and castles. They hold within them stories of love, hate, chivalry, treachery, peace and war which can be heard sung by the wind amongst the forests and caves surrounding the castles.
These very stories and legends, constitute the soul of Cyprus, rooted deep into its soil.
PNT-00287 > Hermione Hammond (1910-2005), Kyrenia Mountains, oil on board, 35x53 cm, 1951.
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