Park of Folk Poets in Xylotymbou

The Park of Folk Poets in Xylotymbou is an original park in the homonymous village of the Larnaca district in Cyprus and was inaugurated in 2013.

With an area of 3.000 sq.m. and dedicated to the many important poets that have been born here, the Park of Folk Poets in Xylotymbou is a recreation area and one of the cultural sights of the settlement.

The visitor walks along the wooden corridor of the park and reads folk poems on square marble slabs, biographies and photos of the poets, as well as black-and-white photographs of old times in Xylotymbou.

In the Xylotymbou community were born important poets such as Konstantinos Papazacharias (1881-1972), Kyriakos Karneras (1900-1986), Theodoros Papadopoulos (1901-1971), Georgios Kassapis (1903-1990), Georgios Zapitis (1912-1990), Papanikolaos Kalokairis (1919-alive), Pantelis Symeos Psaras (1919-2002), Kyriakos Kakkis (1923-1977) and Kokos Minas (Makrasyka 1930 – Xylotymbou 2001).

In the community, besides the Park of Folk Poets, there is also the Peace Park, where an honor plaque was dedicated to the Cypriots who helped the incarcerated Jewish refugees and the British camps of Xylotymbou, Dhekelia and Karalou during the three-year period 1946-49.