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Limassol District \u00b7 Southern Coast of Cyprus<\/p>\n

Pissouri Village & Bay<\/h1>\n

A hillside village of stone houses and vineyards, three kilometres from a Blue Flag bay beneath the white cliffs of Cape Aspro. Discover where to eat, what to see, where to walk, which chapels to visit, and where to stay.<\/p>\n\n

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Find Somewhere to Stay<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

See what’s here \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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About the Village<\/p>\n\n\n

Between the mountains and the sea<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Pissouri sits on a hillside roughly 30 km west of Limassol and a similar distance east of Paphos, with views that stretch from the Troodos foothills down to the Mediterranean. The name is thought to come either from the ancient city of Boosoura mentioned by the historian Strabo, or from the pitch pine resin (pissa<\/em>) once produced here in the Byzantine and Frankish periods.<\/p>\n

The village and its separate bay are two distinct places joined by a short drive: the traditional village around the square and the 1880s stone church of Apostolos Andreas, and the resort area at Pissouri Bay, built up since the 1980s around a Blue Flag beach backed by the dramatic white cliffs of Cape Aspro. Pissouri Bay was once a small medieval port exporting carobs; the old stone warehouses along the shore have since become restaurants and homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cA hillside village of stone houses and vineyards, three kilometres from a bay beneath the white cliffs of Cape Aspro.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The surrounding valley is known for \u201cSultanina\u201d seedless grapes, olives, carob and the local goat\u2019s milk halloumi, \u201cTo Pissourkotiko\u201d \u2014 still made and sold in the village today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Getting oriented<\/strong>
Pissouri Village (the square, church and older tavernas) and Pissouri Bay (the beach, resort hotels and waterfront restaurants) are around 3 km apart by road. Most visitors move between the two by car, taxi, or on foot via the coastal footpaths described on our Nature Trails<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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Plan Your Visit<\/p>\n\n\n

Everything in one place<\/h2>\n\n\n

Five guides covering food and shopping, sights, walking trails, places of worship, and where to book a stay.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Guide<\/p>\n

Businesses<\/a><\/h3>\n

Restaurants, tavernas, beach bars and local shops across the village and the bay.<\/p>\n

Browse the directory \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Guide<\/p>\n

Places of Interest<\/a><\/h3>\n

Pissouri Beach, the Cape Aspro cliffs, the village square, and nearby Kourion and Aphrodite\u2019s Rock.<\/p>\n

See the sights \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Guide<\/p>\n

Nature Trails<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Cape Aspro coastal trail and the village\u2019s waymarked network of colour-coded footpaths.<\/p>\n

Plan a walk \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Guide<\/p>\n

Churches & Chapels<\/a><\/h3>\n

Seven churches and chapels, from the 1880s village church to rock-cut hillside shrines.<\/p>\n

Discover the churches \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Guide<\/p>\n

Where to Stay<\/a><\/h3>\n

Hotels, an inn, and apartments in and around Pissouri, each linking through to Booking.com.<\/p>\n

Find a room \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Limassol District \u00b7 Southern Coast of Cyprus Pissouri Village & Bay A hillside village of stone houses and vineyards, three kilometres from a Blue Flag bay beneath the white cliffs of Cape Aspro. Discover where to eat, what to see, where to walk, which chapels to visit, and where to stay. See what’s here \u2192 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitpissouri.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}