Car Rental Cyprus

Cyprus is an about 9251 km island in the Eastern Mediterranean, where currently around 788.000 Cypriots live, which alone a quarter in the capital, Nicosia. Politically the island divided into northern and southern Cyprus, while the North is recognized only by Turkey as an independent Republic. Since 2004, Cyprus belongs to the community of the European Union.

Cyprus is after Sicily and Sardinia, the third largest, but waldreichste island in the Mediterranean Sea, located just 70 miles from the Turkish mainland.671 Km long coast of picturesque bays with steep rocky banks and extensive gravel and sandy beaches alternate. This makes the ideal destination for all water sports and Sun-seekers Cyprus. A trip with the car in the Troodos Mountains, it is worth but also necessarily the'Black Forest' Cyprus. Around 1800 flowers, almond and peach trees grow here on the slopes of the mountain range and offer a fantastic sight above all in the spring. While the whole island with forests was covered in ancient times, there are today however only around 17 percent, which constantly be reforested.

First traces of settlement on Cyprus date to the 9th Millennium BC. Remains of an ancient, Mycenaean Temple can be in the port city visit to Larnaca which was built on the ruins of the former City Kingdom of Kition. The tourist centres of Cyprus can be found also in the second largest city of the island, in Limassol and the former fishing village of Ayia Napa on the southern coast of the island.

Some beaches are locked at the time of egg laying of the rare, protected sea turtles.