New headache coming for Nicosia old town
NICOSIA municipality’s announcement that it would organise its main Christmas event in the old municipal square in a very cramped and not traffic-friendly part of...
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Plan for Kallipoleos Avenue announced
Nicosia’s Kallipoleos Avenue is to be improved with a new reconstruction plan, a public works department, the Nicosia municipality and the town planning department statement...
Capital braces for more massive works due to start within months
PLANS by the Nicosia municipality to drastically reconstruct the city’s declining commercial centre, Makarios Avenue and its adjacent streets, has raised questions over the project’s...
Demolition of building closes Nicosia roads
Demolition is underway on the old Bank of Cyprus building on Makarios Avenue opposite City Plaza as part of the road and nearby streets were...
‘Bah humbug to Christmas Avenue’, shopkeepers say
By Angelos Anastasiou THE Nicosia municipality’s ‘Christmas Avenue’ initiative will be the object of a court battle initiated by shopkeepers in Makarios Avenue, who feel...
Christmas time in Nicosia
MUCH of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue was closed to traffic from Monday to accommodate the ‘Christmas Street’ organised for the second year in a row by...
Nicosia pop-up festival ready to roll
Nicosia municipality has awarded shop space to 39 out of 70 applicants for this year’s pop-up festival, it said on Wednesday. The festival is being...
Nicosia municipality issues call for pop-up festival 2014
By Jean Christou Nicosia municipality has announced an open call for proposals for the allocation of vacant shops and the organisation of events on Makarios...
Traffic overhaul for congested Nicosia
By Jean Christou MAKARIOS and Kallipoleos avenues in Nicosia, two of the city centre’s busiest thoroughfares, are to become one-way roads as part of medium...
Christmas Avenue attracted nearly 240,000 people
Around 240,000 people visited Christmas Avenue which had been set up on Makarios Avenue in the capital during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period,...
Shopkeepers hopeful about high street changes
By Constantinos Psillides MAKARIOS Avenue shop owners are thrilled about Christmas Avenue, a Christmas market created by the Nicosia municipality for the duration of the...
A festive boost for dying high street
By Zoe Christodoulides Ask anyone in Nicosia about the capital’s main shopping street and you may well get a hesitant response. Officially, of course, it’s...
A new beat on a dying street
By Maria Gregoriou FOR a few hours on Thursday night Makarios Avenue, once Nicosia’s busiest shopping street, was almost like its former self, packed with...
Road works due on Makarios Avenue
MAINTENANCE and repair work on pavements on Makarios Avenue in Nicosia are due to get underway on June 9 from 6am until 3pm. Both traffic...
Dying Makariou to rock to the beat on summer nights
By Poly Pantelides SUMMER nights in Nicosia are about to get groovier with free dancing and music on Makarios Avenue, the home of free Jamm-iN...
