Best known for resort hotels such as Anassa in Polis and Almyra in Paphos, Thanos Hotels’ latest project is Amyth of Nicosia , which has been converted from an early-20th-century villa (latterly a girls’ school) just inside the monumental Venetian walls of the Cypriot capital’s Old City into a 10-room boutique hotel. Opposite the 18th-century Kornesios Hadjigeorgakis Mansion, now the Ethnographic Museum of Cyprus, 250 metres from the Byzantine Museum and a 15-minute walk from the fascinating AG Leventis Gallery, it’s also very close to Eleftheria Square, lately transformed by Zaha Hadid Architects from a dry moat into a public park quite unlike any other, and an excellent base from which to explore this underrated, if still divided, European capital.
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