Dimitrios Elementary School

The Dimitrios Elementary School is located in the homonymous city, on Griva Digeni Avenue, which is the main road leading to the historical center of the city, as one enters from the east.

One of the many public neoclassical buildings of this street that is a jewel for the whole of Cyprus, Dimitrios Elementary School is located in a town planning unit that was one of the first urban formations in Paphos. At this central location of the 28th October Square, the buildings include the Nicholaidio Gymnasium of Paphos, the Propylaea of ​​the Iakovio Gymnasium, the Lyceum of Archbishop Makarios III, the Municipal Library of Paphos and the Municipal Palace (the Town Hall of Paphos).

Under the English domination and during a transitional period for Paphos, from a rural community to an urban center, this complex of neoclassical buildings was created by three architects, admirers of neoclassicism, Andreas Hadjidimitriou, Theodore Fotiadis and Andreas Christodoulides. All three worked consecutively in time (from the late 19th to the end of the 20th century), and although the buildings were formed gradually, a uniform architecture was followed in style, in the strong local character, in the simplicity of the structures and the economy in the use of decorative morphological elements.

The Dimitrios Elementary School was built in 1928 by Andreas Hadjidimitriou and is one of his last works. It has a Π-shaped plan towards the open back space and galleries on the front and back, while in the center of the facade there is a small, Ionic vestibule with two rows of columns, in front of the Ionic rhythm gallery.