
Его известняковые здания составляли единый комплекс из помещений разного функционального предназначения; численность его населения в лучшие годы доходила до двадцати тысяч человек.





Одной из главных достопримечательностей бывшей вотчины Аполлона является расположенный на склоне холма античный амфитеатр (II в. до н.э.). Основную часть времени в нём устраивались классические представления, но в III веке арена театра служила площадкой для боёв гладиаторов с дикими животными. Рядом с театром располагается памятник христианской культуры – состоящая из 35 комнат вилла Эвстолия (V в.), названная так по имени своего основателя. В центре Куриона находится частично отреставрированная, ранне-христианская базилика, служившая одно время епископским храмом.
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Constructed in the XII century B.C., Kurion saw many different people in the walls. At the beginning of it mikenets, then Greeks, then Romans and Byzantines occupied. Standing on the seventy-meter rock, on the bank of the gulf Episkopi, Kurion I was not simply the settlement, and the whole city-state.
Its calcareous buildings made a uniform complex of rooms of different functional mission; the number of its population in the best years reached twenty thousand people.
As actively acting Kurion existed up to the Middle Ages. The architectural monuments which remained in it belong to three large periods of human history – Hellenistic, Roman and early Christian. The pagan era of Kurion ended in the IV century of N э when across Cyprus the wave of the terrible earthquakes which destroyed pagan temples of the city swept. The Christian religious structures which appeared on their place were left in the VII century, after attack on the island of Arabs.
Up to now the antique city of Kurion reached in the form of picturesque, in places perfectly remained and restored in the XX century, ruins of houses and a term (the Roman baths) decorated with a magnificent mosaic with welcome inscriptions, scenes from the Greek mythology and images of birds and animals.
One of the main sights of the former ancestral lands of Apollo is the antique amphitheater located on a hill slope (II century BC). The main part of time in it classical representations were arranged, but in the III century the arena of theater served as a platform for fights of gladiators with wild animals. Near theater the monument of Christian culture – Evstoliya's country house consisting of 35 rooms (V century) called so by name the founder settles down. In Kurion's center there is partially restored, early Christian basilica serving at one time as the episcopal temple.
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