Work to restart on ten cultural heritage sites across Cyprus
Even during the difficult situation posed by the coronavirus pandemic the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage has continued its weekly meetings though teleconferencing to review...
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Residents call for action on Famagusta church
Residents of Famagusta on Tuesday called on the bi-communal technical committee for cultural heritage to preserve the Ayia Paraskevi church in northern Varosha. The state...
Work starts on Nicosia’s collapsed Venetian walls
Work to restore parts of the Venetian walls that have collapsed in the north are estimated to reach near €500,000 the head of the Bicommunal...
Call for more support for bicommunal committee on cultural heritage
Parts of Kyrenia castle are in need of restoration while many other monuments are crumbling, MPs said on Tuesday while calling for more financial support...
Emotional opening for renovated church and mosque
People flocked from all corners of Cyprus to the walled city of Famagusta on Wednesday to witness the opening ceremony of the renovated Maronite church...
Rain destroys 16th century church in Nicosia’s buffer zone
Torrential rains in recent days caused the collapse of the bell tower and part of the wall of the derelict 16th century church of Ayios...
Preservation works planned for northern Nicosia city walls
The bicommunal technical committee on cultural heritage plans to start preservation works on part of Nicosia’s Venetian walls in the north to remove vegetation and...
Bicommunal committee marks 10 years of fixing heritage sites
The bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage (TCCH) on Wednesday celebrated 10 years of working with the European Commission and the UNDP to preserve the...
Icons stored in Kyrenia castle ‘generally in good condition’
Members of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage on Friday visited Kyrenia castle to look into the conditions under which Greek Orthodox icons and other...
Technical Committee to examine icons stored in Kyrenia castle (Updated: adds Mufti)
The Bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage decided on Thursday to visit Kyrenia castle in the north to examine the storage conditions of a large number of...
EU donates €3 million to island’s cultural heritage
The European Union provided an additional €3 million in support of the work of the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage in Cyprus via an agreement...
Greens leader protests use of Turkish place names in north
The head of the Greens party, Giorgos Perdikis, has criticised the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for using the Turkish name – Mormenekşe – for...
Two churches in the north to be conserved by technical committee
Works for the new project of the bicommunal technical committee on culture – the conservation of two churches one in Assia the other in Afania,...
Officials celebrate completion of Famagusta project
More than 400 people attended an event on Tuesday night marking the completion of conservation works to the Ravelin/Land Gate in Famagusta. The event was...
EU defies ministry rebuke over archaeological sites in north
The work of the Bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage, and the EU in Cyprus in restoring monuments on both sides will not be put...
Conservation works at Ravelin Bastion in Famagusta completed
Conservation works at the Ravelin Bastion and the Land Gate, a significant part of Famagusta’s cultural heritage, were completed recently and the bicommunal Technical Committee...
Bi-communal cooperation to save the monuments of Cyprus
Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, along with the people of UNDP-Pff and the EU, are working methodically after years of abandonment and destruction to save...
Joint conservation works unveiled in Paphos
Conservation works at the mosques of Ayios Nicolaos and Ayios Ioannis in the Paphos district were presented on Thursday, by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage,...
Heard the one about the GC and TC stuck in a buffer-zone minefield?
On Thursday and Friday next week, the Bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage is presenting what is described as an ingenious and hilarious take on...
Work progressing on Apostolos Andreas monastery
The first phase of a project to rehabilitate the Apostolos Andreas monastery in the occupied north is nearing its end, MPs heard on Wednesday. Takis...