Kissousa

Kissousa is a small village in the Limassol district in Cyprus and is situated about 40 km from the city of Limassol, 55 km from Paphos, 100 km from Larnaca and 120 km from Nicosia.

It is built next to a riverbed, very close to Limassol’s wine villages, Vouni and Mallia. The village is small and all in all covers approximately an area of only 200 meters. Kissousa has only a few houses, a church, a small park, and has a single resident.

The name of Kissousa came from the fact that the region is adorned by the elaborate formations of ivies (kissos in Greek means ivy). Also there, on a precipice, on the east bank of a river, nest thousands of birds with their singing resonating around the village.

Formerly the village was famous for its honey, produced in a traditional way in honeycombs they made within the walls of their houses. Since 1960 Kissousa became the main source of drinking water for the British base at Akrotiri Lemesou, so gradually the residents began to abandon the beekeeping.

The small village square, with the tall trees and ivies, the river and the dozens of springs that once had the best water in Cyprus, compose to this day a really beautiful scenery, even though the village is left to the mercy of time and weather conditions. To the north of Kissousa, there is a beautiful trail, which although hard to access, is ideal for adventures in nature, as a truly pristine destination on the island.

In Kissousa there is the Byzantine church of Agios Sergios kai Vakhos (Saints Sergius and Bacchus), which is celebrated on October the 2 nd . In the courtyard of this church grows a massive terebinth tree, 7 centuries old, which almost covers the church and most of the adjacent cemetery.