Platres
Πλάτρες
A historic hill resort in the Troodos Mountains, where colonial-era hotels and forest trails coexist
Platres stands at about 1,100 m elevation. In the first half of the 20th century it was a summer retreat for British colonial officials and wealthy Middle Easterners. The town still has long-established hotels such as the Forest Park Hotel, and Nobel Prize-winning poet George Seferis is said to have written a poem about the nightingale here. The main street has restaurants, dessert shops and souvenir stores, and it is the base for the two waterfalls and for hiking up Mount Olympus. It is about 45 minutes by car from Limassol.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Millomeris Waterfall
- Caledonia Waterfalls
- Mount Olympus (Troodos)
- Omodos
- Lania
- Panagia tou Araka
- Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates
- Kolossi Castle