Petra tou romiouOne of the most beautiful beaches of Cyprus outstanding natural beauty where the legend emerged from the waves of Aphrodite, the goddess of Beauty and Love. Of this fact the site was named Rock coast of Venus.The name Stone of Romios linked Digenis Akritas with the legendary Byzantine hero. Once, during the Arab invasions (7 - 10 century AD) the Digenis seized a huge rock with superhuman strength and threw over the Saracens who were trying to land on the coast. The rock left from there and then gave to the whole region the name of Romios Stone (the Digeni). At the entrance of the Administrative Region of the province of Paphos, on the southern coast of the island, one of the most beautiful beaches of Cyprus outstanding natural beauty where the mountains indolently joins the sea is the Stone of Romios. This is a big rock, a real atolls from the depths of the ocean bottom. On the rock find fossils, corals, algae, and pieces of shells. The rock is chum other smaller rocks into the sea and the adjacent coast. One loaded with rock legend, tradition, memories. A rock in which it is connected throughout the island. The fertile imagination chose the Greek Cyprus and especially the rock as the place where it emerged from the sea foams of the Goddess of Beauty and Love. The name of the rock of Romios Petra (Greek) according to the tradition associated with the legend of Digenis Akritas medieval times. Tradition says that the huge rock that had flung the Digenis from the mountains of Troodos against Saracen invaders. The ancient myth but wants to be the Stone and the entire cluster of surrounding rocks, pieces of a large oyster Aphrodite carrying off the coast of Cyprus since traveled the seas and oceans. In another tradition says that in ancient times to the beach of Petra Romios called Achni. Many believe that the name comes from the name paraphrasing Achaeans linked to the beach, where the Achaeans Araxos upon their return from the Trojan War. In the Stone of Romios, the myth, the myth, the generous natural beauty, the sun, the sea, blue sky between the play and create a truly dream-like spectacle. |
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