PLATRES VILLAGE
Platres in the summer is a booming mountain village with over 9,000 inhabitants in the peak of the summer months. Because the village is so popular with tourists during the summer, most of these inhabitants are related to the tourism industry. But, amazingly, the permanent residents of the village all year round are just 250 people. In fact since 1881 when the village had a population of 100 people, throughout the years the population has risen and fallen, reaching its maximum permanent residents of 500 in the year 1946. Apart from the tourism industry some of the residents work in the area of fruit cultivation.
FOINI VILLAGE
Foini village lies in a lavishly green natural environment among pine trees on the steep slopes of Troodos Mountain. It is a wonderfully graphic place among the mountain peaks at an altitude of 3,020 feet.
MONIATIS VILLAGE
The Nature bestowed the village of Moniatis with the most beautiful colors and scents. Moniatis is an “exquisite resort” built in the foothills of Mount Troodos. It has “rich vegetation, mostly pine trees”.
Giorgos Karouzis depicts the natural beauty of Moniatis with an excellent description. Specifically, he writes: “Only the colors of green and the height of some trees indicate the different kinds of vegetation. The tall and thin cypresses stand out, the deep green walnuts, the eucalypts with their red trunks and their peculiar leaves, the tall linden trees with their silver and green leaves, all next to the creel of the small confluent of River Kourris”.
