Monument of Honor and Remembrance of EOKA, Chlorakas

The Monument of Honor and Remembrance of EOKA in Chlorakas is located in the homonymous village of the Paphos province and is one of the area's cultural attractions.

An area devoted to the armed liberation struggle against the English of 1955-59, the Monument of Honor and Remembrance of EOKA in Chlorakas is located under the Ship “Agios Georgios” Chlorakas Museum and the huge statue of Georgios Grivas Digenis, the sculpture of Theodoulos Theodoulos. There, in the Aliki site where the monument was built, in November 1954, the leader George Grivas Dighenis had secretly arrived with the ship “Siren” from Greece, from where he organized the fight.

The purpose of the sculpture is to be an autonomous structure due to the topography of the natural environment with the coast and the rocks that surround it. The allegorical monument is a towering brass column with two legs with a gap between them, like a huge window or an entrance that overlooks the horizon, wishing to symbolize the beginning of the Struggle. Around this, a small square is formed so that the audience can gather there for the feast of the laying of the wreath. At the top of the structure, there is a bronze sculpture that is abridged in the shape of a ship. Shifting the form in motion, suggests movement in water or air. Next to the low walls leading to the monument, there are reliefs on white marble by the sculptor Vangelis Moustakas, which represent the arrival of Dighenis to the Chlorakas coast, the transfer of weapons and the capture of the “Agios Georgios” boat by the English.

The Monument of Honor and Remembrance of EOKA in Chlorakas is the work of the artist Nikos Kourousis and the architect Margaritos Danos, selected after a pan-Hellenic contest, and was inaugurated in 2000 by the Minister of Education and Culture, Ouranios Ioannidis. It was erected at the expense of the EOKA Historic Remembrance Council 1955-59 and the EOKA Fighters' Associations.