Tourist attractions: Cyprus is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, it contain citrus and olive groves, pine forested mountains, and some of Europe's cleanest beaches, Cyprus is the legendary birthplace of the goddess of beauty and love, the beautiful Aphrodite, the legendary site of Aphrodite's birth is at Petra Tou Romiou ("Aphrodite's Rock"), a large sea stack close to the coastal cliffs near Paphos. Cyprus is an island of beauty and a country of contrasts. Cyprus, is earth of myths and legends, it conjugates the beauty of its sea and its beaches, the lively of its traditions, the wealth of its works of art, that they go from the archaeological remains of the several civilization that are passed in the island, to the imposing Venetian and Turkish fortresses, to the beautiful orthodox churches and monasteries.  

Unesco has inscribed 3 Cyprus properties in the World Heritage List: the remains of villas, palaces, theatres, fortresses and tombs of Paphos (1980), the Painted Churches in the Troodos Region, (a complex of 10 monuments are included on the World Heritage List) (1985, 2001), the Neolithic settlement of Choirokoitia (1998).