Town Hall of Paphos

The Town Hall of Paphos is located in the homonymous city, on Griva Digeni Avenue, and is the most important point of reference in the heart of the capital of the province of Paphos.

One of the many public neoclassical buildings of this street that is a jewel for the whole of Cyprus, the Town Hall of Paphos is built in the Municipal Garden and opposite of the Monument of the 28th October. It is located in a town planning unit that was one of the first urban formations in Paphos. At this central location, which is also the 28th October Square, the building complex also includes the Nicholadio Gymnasium of Paphos, the Dimitrios Elementary School, the Propylaia of Jacobi Gymnasium, the Archbishop Makarios III Lyceum and the Municipal Library 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 Town Hall of Paphos or else the Municipal Palace of Paphos was built in 1959 as an imitation of the Parthenon architecture by Andreas Christodoulides and it is a building with a plan view in the form of the Greek letter Π. The quadrilateral Doric vestibule at its facade is identical to that of the Archbishop Makarios III Lyceum.