Medieval watermill of Pyrgos, Limassol

The Medieval watermill of Pyrgos, Limassol is one of the cultural attractions of the homonymous village in Limassol.

A remnant of the Middle Ages, the ruins of the medieval watermill of Pyrgos, Limassol, was a technologically advanced irrigation and hydraulic system, a unique example of its kind in Cyprus, and it was supposed to have been constructed by Cistercian monks.

In the 13th century in the village there was a male monastery of the Latin Monastery of the Cistercian, who cultivated their estate lands and exploited agricultural production. The monks seem to have lived in the area from 1238 to 1251, but preserved their property at least until the end of the 15th century.

From the Medieval Watermill of Pyrgos, the mill is preserved with the triangular tank and the medieval arch that were fed with water from a source, as well as a rectangular double tank about 300 meters northwest of the mill. The water was gathered from the source into the triangular tank with a long groove and channeled into a pit, inside the tall water tower.

Due to its architectural and historical significance, the Medieval Watermill of Limassol has been declared by the Department of Antiquities into an Archaeological Monument and according to research and the glazed ceramics found on the floor of the mill, it had at least two construction phases and a duration of use of several centuries.