Limassol Marina
Yachts, a promenade, and the modern face of the city. Walk it once. Eat somewhere that is not on the pontoon.
Foto: A.Savin / Wikimedia Commons, FAL
The marina opened in 2014 on reclaimed land west of the old port, and it is the picture Limassol now uses of itself: white hulls, glass apartments, a boardwalk with restaurants along it. It is pleasant. It is also the most expensive two hundred metres on the island, and the restaurants know who they are for.
Walk it anyway. The boardwalk connects to the old port, where the fishing boats still tie up and the harbour-side kafeneia still serve a Cypriot coffee for what it costs everywhere else, and from there to the medieval castle and the lanes of the old town behind it. That walk — marina, old port, castle, old town — is the whole of Limassol's seafront history in forty minutes.
Where to eat instead
Two streets back. Agiou Andreou and the streets off it, between the castle and the Molos park, is where the city eats: wine bars in restored stone houses, a meze place that has been there since before the marina was a drawing. On a Tuesday night there are tables. That is where a membership is worth having.
Perks in de buurt
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Limassol: meer plekken
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KourionA clifftop ancient city-kingdom above Episkopi Bay, with a restored Greco-Roman theatre, fine mosaics and one of the most dramatic sea views in Cyprus.
Kolossi CastleA solid 15th-century keep built by the Knights Hospitaller amid vineyards and sugar-cane fields. It gave its name to the sweet Commandaria wine.
Limassol Castle (Cyprus Medieval Museum)A stout medieval castle in Limassol's old town that now houses the Cyprus Medieval Museum, steps from the old port.