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This complex of apartments has indoor and outdoor pools, live music and watersports.

You don’t need any special skills to strap on a parachute harness and soar into the air as you are pulled along by a fast-moving speedboat, but you do need a certain amount of nerve. The reward is a splendid bird’s eye view of your resort and an exhilarating ride. Again, most resorts have competitive outlets offering this activity.

Pasalimani, with sea views, maintains its long established reputation as one of Limassol’s best fish restaurants.

Pegeia’s buildings are set among fields and farmland inland of Coral Bay (see Coral Bay). Between the cobbled central square, with its fountains, and the former fishing harbour are foundations of two early Christian churches, with fine mosaic floors.

Although not native to the island, migrating pelicans are sometimes seen resting on Akrotiri’s salt lake.

Gleaming steel and zinc mark Pepper out as one of Agia Napa’s most style-conscious café-bars, with outdoor tables. Mirror shades are de rigueur .

Saints, martyrs, emperors and demons are depicted in wall-paintings within the Byzantine church of Agioi Apostoloi in this small village near Dali.

A 10th-century church with wall paintings dates from the 12th and 15th centuries.

For those who want to work up an appetite before dinner or burn off calories after lunch, this brisk stroll is ideal. Start just south of Troodos Square in Troodos Resort and walk through lush woods to the Makria Kondarka viewpoint, 1,700 m (5,575 ft) above sea level. The farmlands of the Limassol plain spread out below you.

The Lusignan ruler (1358– 69) harried the eastern Mediterranean until assassinated by a cabal of his own nobles.