Traditional House of Paralimni

The Traditional House of Paralimni is located on Agia Marina Street, next to the stadium, near the central square of the homonymous settlement in the Famagusta province of Cyprus.

Built in the former family home of Panagiotis Eleftherios Kalimeras, the Traditional House of Paralimni is a 19th-century building, one of the area’s main cultural attractions. Its exhibits, through which one can study the roots of the life and the traditions of the place, date from the mid 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century and vary from old household appliances and dishes on the suvadzha (built-in shelf) to textiles and fabrics and the loom used to weave them.

Since 2010, renovations have begun on the construction of the Traditional House of Paralimni in order to respond to the needs of its exhibitory role. During the course of the renovation, display cases where built for the exhibitions on the walls, as well as two sheds on the east and west side of the courtyard, toilets, a basement engine room, and a small café for guests.

So today the Traditional House of Paralimni has a two-space room, which has a purely traditional shape, with the stone-built large arch in the middle, a window high up on the north wall, the door and two windows left and right on the south wall, a smaller room that has in the middle a stone-built arch and a single door, with no windows, and a third room with two stone-built arches, a stone column in the middle and two windows to the side of the courtyard. Finally, in the center of its courtyard there is a well and a fenced area.

The collection of traditional materials and exhibits for the creation of the Traditional House of Paralimni are all donations of citizens and their classification was based on the history of traditional Cypriot art.