Fikardou Heritage Festival

Fikardou, a quasi-abandoned village declared an Ancient Monument in 1978 and placed on UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List, holds a Festival of Tradition inviting visitors to walk its preserved eighteenth- and nineteenth-century streets. Two houses, awarded by Europa Nostra in 1987 and 1988, now operate as public museums run by the Department of Antiquities among the village's forty surviving 1920s houses.

Only a handful of permanent residents remain in Fikardou, a settlement the Cyprus Department of Antiquities declared an Ancient Monument by law in 1978, formally protecting the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century houses and traditional mountain architecture that place the entire village on UNESCO's World Heritage Tentative List as an exceptional example of a preserved traditional mountain settlement.