The carved writing is a quotation from Isaac Watson’s “Compleat Angler” said to be carved by an eccentric local scholar and traveller William Mounsey in 1855.
The carved faces may pre-date the verse by a couple of hundred years and seem to be rather mysterious.
The abandoned monastery of Panagia tou Sinti is situated on the banks of the Xeros River in Pentalia, and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia) of Sinti.
The church has an octagonal dome with four windows and belongs to the first half of the 16th century. Its central nave is in good condition, and it is considered to be one of the most important buildings of the Venetian period.
The Monastery remained in operation until 1927 and thereafter was abandoned. In 1994, the Monastery of Kykkos undertook the maintenance of the Monastery, completing it in 1997 when it earned the Europa Nostra Award for the use of good restoration techniques and preservation of its original character.
The two abandoned villages of Agios Fotios and Statos in the Paphos district of Cyprus, are just two kilometres apart. During the years of 1966 to 1969 the two villages met with catastrophic disasters due to very heavy rapid rainfall.
The government called in special geologists who inspected the villages and recommended that the villages be transferred to another area. That is when most residents of the two villages, decided to join the two villages.
Old Theletra was abandoned several decades ago. The threat of landslides drove the population up the hill to a new settlement. Since then the village has mainly been left to crumble.
In the late 1970s, due to the danger of landslides caused by strong earthquakes, soil erosion and the impossibility of further development of the village, residents decided to move to a new place – to the top of the very hill where they lived. The government supported them in this affair and helped to found New Theletra, which was established in a safer place. By the way, no destructive landslides, which the residents feared so much, have not happened since that moment, but the danger still remains.
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