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Pafos The charming western town of Pafos. focuses around a little harbour, with picturesque open air fish restaurants lining a quay-side of bright fishing boats and pleasure crafts. Pafos is entwined with Greek mythology and the legendary birth of Aphrodite on its shores, which brought it fame and worshippers to follow the cult of the Goddess. Landmarks associated with Aphrodite are the chunky, rugged rocks of her beautiful birth shore known as the Aphrodite Rock or "Petra tou Romiou", the evocative sanctuary of Aphrodite at Kouklia village, one time shrine and scene of pagan festivals for thousands, the Baths of Aphrodite at Polis, supposed source of fertility and the Fountain of Love, or "Fontana Amorosa", a few kilometers further into the Akamas Peninsula. |
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