#Nicosia

The Christmas decorations on Nicosia’s revamped Makarios avenue will be lit in a ceremony on Saturday, Nicosia municipality has announced. The much-anticipated project which has narrowed roads and widened ...

The government has commissioned a €518,000 study – centred on Nicosia – which will help it plan and assess how to best spend large chunks of the €174 million at its disposal to overhaul ...

A 23-year-old professional basketball player is in critical condition at the Nicosia general hospital after a brawl outside a nightclub in the capital earlier on Sunday. Limassol’s AEL basketball ...

Nicosia’s former main shopping street to be finished in time for Christmas The long-long-awaited revamp of Nicosia’s Makarios Avenue is set to be completed on December 7, but a ...

In Yesteryears of Nicosia one man has set up a collaborative Facebook page looking back on the glory days of the island’s capital. Alix Norman meets him The earliest ...

Nicosia municipality on Thursday announced the closure of the old GSP stadium as revamp works are set to start next Wednesday. The stadium, which provided free parking for hundreds of ...

Prestigious travel guide publisher Lonely Planet has included Nicosia in the 2022 edition of its annual ‘Best in Travel’ book, which ranks the planet’s must-visit countries, cities and regions. Described ...

Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis and representatives from C. Roushas Trading and Development Ltd signed contracts earlier this week for Phase 2.2 of a redevelopment project along the Nicosia walls with a budget ...

Contracts were signed on Wednesday for the revamp of old GSP stadium in central Nicosia, with works expected to kick off on November 10. The budget for the project is just ...

Several areas in Nicosia briefly went without electricity on Thursday after powerful gusts swept tree branches onto power cables. A spokesperson for the Electricity Authority said 17 different areas were affected, ...

The documentary film Spaces of Reconciliation: Youth Interaction through Art in the City, by Mete Hatay of PRIO Cyprus Centre and independent director Orhan Eskiköy, follows Cypriot artists as ...

It’s quiet in the city during this time of the year with most seeking to cool off by the beach or in the mountains. Nicosia is especially tranquil in ...

Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos on Tuesday officially inaugurated the new Omirou underground municipal car park and the upgraded section of Omirou avenue. The car park, located underneath the avenue in ...

Police said Wednesday they have seized two kilos of cocaine and arrested two suspects during an operation in the Nicosia district. The force tweeted that during an ongoing drug squad ...

Nicosia Mayor Constantinos Yiorkadjis and interior minister Nicos Nouris on Tuesday presented the recently completed first phase of a regeneration project which saw sections of Trikoupi, Aeschylus and Lefkonos streets ...

Nicosia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday suggested that the former state fair ground in Engomi be converted into a hub for innovation and business. The proposal was ...

The paraplegics association (Opak) gave the thumbs up to Nicosia’s revamped Kyriacou Matsi Avenue on Tuesday, which, unlike many other areas, has been designed to be accessible to people ...

It was recently decided that the historic school of Phaneromeni is to be converted into an architecture school of the University of Cyprus. Some objected to this, but many including ...

Members of the bicommunal Cypriot Songs Association found an ingenious way to perform together again after a long hiatus due to the pandemic restrictions. The group, Σύνδεσμος Κυπριακού Τραγουδιού/Kıbrıs Havaları ...

Key historic buildings in Nicosia’s old town are being put to new use as part of what the state hopes will be an urban transformation Nicosia’s historic city ...

The new Nicosia-based Solidarity Hub will help integrate vulnerable people into society by providing them free consultation services, the municipality said on Tuesday. Solidarity network Nicosia in Action (NicInAct) is ...

The government’s plan for revitalising old Nicosia – an endeavour with an approximately three-year timeframe – was presented to stakeholders on Tuesday by Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides. Petrides and Nicosia mayor ...

A group of Nicosia residents spend last Sunday morning cleaning up Pedieos riverbed, following reports of large amounts of rubbish dumped in the area. Large pieces of wood, plastic and ...

Cyta CEO Andreas Neocleous in a recent interview with the Cyprus Mail raised an interesting point regarding the implementation of 5G and the resulting facilitation of advanced technology solutions on ...