Description

Get acquainted wich Cypriot tradition and visit the farmhouse in the Monastery Square. The farmhouse symbolises the nostalgic rural traditions of Agia Napa's past in authentic reconstruction.

The Farmhouse is an excellent insight into the peasant farmer's simplistic life and his special relationship with the land. The home was the focal point of the farmer's activities. It was therefore arranged in such a way that served his every need. On the plains, the farmhouse was built of mud-bricks with a big yard and high fence. The houses were single-storey and sometimes two-storey. Their main features were the arches and the large veranda at the front. The spacious double rooms were furnished and decorated with the farmer's wife's furniture and utensils; the loom in one corner, the carved cupboards, the consoles, and the high bed with embroidered bedspreads and ornamental plates. In the yard there was the oven, the thread-wheel for water and the plouth.

Apart from working in the fields, the farmer's wife worked in the house, weaving cloth to clothe her husband and children. She also prepared food and drink for her family. Cypriot women prepared zivania, trahanas, halloumi, soutzioukkos, raisins, must (new wine) and vinegar. Rural life it was a different world from what most of us know today, but here in Cyprus the visitors will notice that many of our rural traditions still continue today. Rural life, as it was, is fully reconstructed at Farmhouse at Ayia Napa Festival the last week of September every year