Every year · usually September
The Republic's flagship state-backed arts festival, staged every autumn since the early 1990s with theatre, dance, classical music and contemporary performance spread across the main cities. Programming mixes international touring productions with Cypriot work, and quality varies year to year with the line-up. Tickets are generally reasonably priced, and some events are free.
Every year, usually in September. The next dates have not been announced yet — we add them as soon as the organiser does.
Theatres and venues in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos, Island-wide.
Check with the organiser.
It is held every year, usually in September. The dates of the next edition have not been announced yet, so confirm with the organiser before you travel.
Theatres and venues in Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos, Cyprus.
Yes. It is held every year, usually in September, and usually lasts 4–6 weeks.
The biggest wine festival in Cyprus, running nine days in the Municipal Gardens on the seafront. Entry is €5 for adults (€3 for 13–17s, under-12s free) and the wineries’ tastings inside are free; a wine glass costs €1.50–2.50 extra. Food, music and dance every evening.
The island's home-grown pop culture convention, running annually since the mid-2010s with cosplay contests, artist alley, gaming zones and comic vendors. It is smaller and friendlier than the giant international cons, which makes it easy to actually see everything in a day. Tickets are modestly priced and the cosplay standard is impressively high for a small island.
A Sunday in Agios Mamas, one of the Commandaria wine villages in the hills north of Limassol, where you can watch — and help with — the making of ppalouzes and soutzoukos, the grape-must sweets of the harvest. Live folk music and dancing, a village market, donkey rides and storytelling for children; free entry.
