Geroskipou Sightseeing "Kato Vrisi" (The Down Fountain) Is the biggest fountain in Geroskipou and it has the Largest water quantity. The tradition wants in a way its water as holy water, but also and as water of Aphrodite’s baths. “Kato Vrisi” is an ancient aqueduct, which from the Antiquity till the recent years, used to water and refresh human beings and animals of the area. In the fountain’s basins the inhabitants of the community used to wash their clothes. Its water seems to be conveyed with mines from the northern rocky hillocks of Geroskipou. The Medieval Neromilos or Alevromilos In a sort distance from “Kato Vrisi’’ can be found the ruins of a Neromilos. Its manufacture and its functioning refers to the medieval times and more exactly to the 14th century. Its motive power was the water, out of where it came and the naming of Neromilos. The main elaboration it was the grinding of the wheat to flour, out of where it came the naming “Alevromilos’’. The water used to come from the fountains of the northern rocky hillocks of Geroskipou and was conveyed into the trench with mines. Places of Platzeri and Asprogi In the decades of ’60 and’70, the archaeological pickax brought in the light evidences which prove that Geroskipou has been inhabited from at least the Late Bronze Age (1600 – 1050 B.C.). The Antiquities Department has excavated various graves in the neighboring places of “Platzeri” and “Asprogi” and has collected very interesting funeral gifts. The pots that have been found composed a formal imitation of the Mycenaean pots. These archeological finds are found today in the Cyprus Museum and in the District Museum of Pafos. Hellenistic cemetery in the "Haskas" and "Katarameni" places In these neighbouring places are found hewed on the rocks graves of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. This archaeological place has been proclaimed as an “ancient monument” by the Antiquities Department. The Sanctuary of Apollon Ilatis It is about a grave that been converted to a sanctuary, at least from the 5th century B.C., a period to which refers the two syllabically inscriptions that are found on the monument’s rock. The sanctuary is hewed on the rock and is composed of two underground adjacent halls. The access towards them can be done through a gradual hewed road. The sanctuary had been discovered at the end of the 19th century. It is been proclaimed as an “ancient monument” by the Antiquities Department. St. George and the lineal rocky site This historical place composed the chapel of St. George (one declivity church), a natural water-well, a hewed olive-press in the rock of the Roman period, graves hewed in the rocks (of the Hellenistic and Roman periods), as well as caves and other establishments, most probably remains of the medieval establishments that been used as hermitages around the chapel of St. George. "Agios Pollotzellaros" (St. Pollotzellaros) and "Agii Pente" (Five Saints) It is about graves which are hewed on the rocks in the “Agii Pente” place and during the Christian years have been evidently converted to hermitaes and thereafter to adoration places in the remembrance of these hermits. In certain big points of the rock, lin the inner of the chapel of “Agii Pente” (Afxentios, Evgenios, Efstratios, Mardarios and Orestis), are preserved wall-paintings. The naming of “Agios Pollotzellaros” most probably could be composed by a remembrance towards an unknown hermit who lived in this cave. The Church of Agia Paraskevi Basilica with three declivities and five domes that belongs to the 9th century A.D. It is the oldest basilica with five domes church that has been saved in Cyprus and one of the most significant churches of the Island. It is almost conserved integral to its original shape. Probable, the Church might be built up on the foundations of an ancient Greek pagan temple or a basilica old Christian church. There have been saved wall-paintings of various epochs. Some of them are from the most ancient of Cyprus, as those are dated in the 9th century. In the church’s shrine there are few very remarkable icons which belongs to the 15th century. The Farm Land of Gerokipia or The Farm Land of Germanina With these two names is known this land with an extent of about 1200 scales in the southern of Geroskipou, near the sea. From 1930 belonged to the German family Karl and Emilie Widmaier. The main cultivation in the Farm-land was cotton. Among the stone-constructed building establishments used to be and a chapel, most probably of the German’s possessors dogma. Gerokipia was the place where the Holy Gardens of Aphrodite used to be found. The chapel of Agia Marina One declivity arch-covered chapel which is found in the place of the new cemetery of Geroskipou. Probably, this present church could have been built up on the foundations of an older church. The fountain of the Public Square Was built up on 1917 by the artist of the community Michalis Kontos. It has the inscription on it of: EXPENDUTURE BY GOOD RESIDENT FRIENDS OF IEROU KIPOU JOLY 25 YEAR 1917. It is built up in a crown’s form. From this fountain the community was drawn, while it was also used even for the animal’s watering. The fountain’s water is coming from the northern rocky hillocks of Geroskipou with mines. The Folk Art Museum Is sheltered in the mansion of Andreas and his son Smith or Hadjismith Zimlboulakis who from the end of the 18th century even till 1864 served as Vice-Consuls of England in Pafos. The stone-built mansion of Zimboulakis, two-storied and large for the datas of its time, constitute an excellent specimen of the Cyprus traditional architecture during the 2nd half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The house has been proclaimed as an “ancient monument” by the Antiquities Department, it has been reinstated and converted to a Folk Art Museum in 1978. There is exposed a great variety of ethnographic crafts from different areas of Cyprus. Back