Mesa Geitonia

The village Mesa Geitonia is located just two kilometers north of Limassol in the homonymous province of Cyprus.

It is a suburb of the capital, and as the smallest municipality of the province it has about 15,000 permanent residents, who apparently enjoy a quality life a breath away from the city noise. Mesa Geitonia got its name from the fact that it is built in a deep valley (mesa geitonia stands for inner neighborhood in Greek), and for many years it was cut off from Limassol due to a lack of road infrastructure, although it was connected to the neighboring Agios Athanasios Lemesou settlement by a bridge from 1928.

Archaeological excavations have brought to light several findings around Mesa Geitonia, confirming its existence for at least 3000 years. During the Frankish and Venetian rule the village was the fief of an unknown noble, while the Arab invasions and natural disasters have not left anything from the original settlement, with a unique exception a medieval cistern, which is the emblem of the region and represents the life that was given to the settlement with the advent of water.

Densely populated and with a continuous development in recent years, the most traditional part of Mesa Geitonia is the Triandria Square. In the wider area of the settlement there are four churches, Timios Prodromos (Saint John the Baptist) which was built two years after the implementation of Tansimat, (1844), the Apostolou Andrea (Apostle Andrew), built during the period of the liberation struggle, as well as Agios Elevtherios (St. Eleftherios) and Osia Xeni, which is a church of the Old Caledarists. Last, on the outskirts of Panthea Hill have been found ruins of an old church, so another church will be built in that area.

Moreover, in Mesa Geitonia operates an open school, a yacht club, and several cultural clubs, while along the municipality there are several green parks.