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Bellapais is a small village in the Kyrenia District in the northern part of Cyprus, about four miles from the town of Kyrenia. It is under the de facto control of Northern Cyprus.
The village was the home for some years of Lawrence Durrell, who wrote about life in Cyprus in his book Bitter Lemons. He mentions passing the time drinking coffee under the Tree of Idleness in the village and there are two places which lay claim to being the spot. His book did not identify it completely, and two establishments profit from the name. His house, up a very steep climb, has a plaque on it and one can have the pleasure of returning by a not-quite-so-perpendicular way that passes by old olive presses.
The jewel of the village is Bellapais Abbey or "The Abbey of Peace (from French: Abbaye de la Belle Paix). Built by canons regular of the Premonstratensian Order in the 13th century, it is a most imposing ruin in a wonderful position commanding a long view down to Kyrenia and the Mediterranean Sea.
Most of the monastic buildings surround the cloister. In Britain these would normally be built on the south side of the church so to some extent protect the living quarters from the cold air from the north. At Bellapais, the monastic buildings are on the north, probably to be cooler, although occasionally the lay of the land dictated position.
^In 1983, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus unilaterally declared independence from the Republic of Cyprus. The de facto state is not recognised by any UN state except Turkey.
(1982). The Road to Bellapais. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-88033-000-7. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bellapais. Bellapais travel guide from...
Bellapais Abbey (also spelled Bellapaïs) is the ruin of a monastery built by Canons Regular in the 13th century on the northern side of the small village...
been interred. Bellapais Abbey (from the French "abbaye de la paix" which means the Peace Monastery), in the northern village of Bellapais, was constructed...
Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1991. Oberling, Pierre. The road to Bellapais (1982), Social Science Monographs, p. 120 Archived 28 April 2023 at the...
peace. MRG. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-897693-91-9. Oberling, Pierre. The Road to Bellapais (1982), Social Science Monographs, p. 120 Archived 22 January 2023 at...
Northern Cyprus State Symphony Orchestra has been active since 1975. The Bellapais Abbey in Kyrenia hosts international festivals of classical music, and...
many of their descendants now populating the village. The Monastery of Bellapais has been referred to as the Monastery of Cozzafani (another name of the...
Christians. They first settled briefly on Cyprus, where they established Bellapais Abbey, before proceeding to settle in various countries of Europe. The...
Bibliopolis. ISBN 978-3-933925-20-6. Oberling, Pierre (1982). The Road to Bellapais. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-88033-000-8. O'Malley, Brendan...
cathedrals and monasteries. The former Catholic Augustinian Cloister of Bellapais near Kyrenia was transferred to Orthodox Church authorities when the Ottomans...
August 2014. Retrieved 29 June 2017. Oberling, Pierre (1982). The Road to Bellapais: The Turkish Cypriot Exodus to Northern Cyprus. Social Science Monographs...
2008-07-19. "Güvenlik Kuvvetleri Armoni Mızıkası Orkestrası Konseri – ..::Bellapais Music Festival::". p.267, Thornton "Mehter Band and Mehter Anthem of Ottoman...
during the Cyprus Emergency, Leigh Fermor visited Durrell's villa in Bellapais, Cyprus: After a splendid dinner by the fire he starts singing, songs...
Oslo: PRIO Cyprus Centre. pp. 5–15. Oberling, Pierre (1982). The road to Bellapais: The Turkish Cypriot exodus to northern Cyprus. Social Science Monographs...
the Kourion Amphitheatre. [3] During the spring months of April and May Bellapais Abbey (a 13th Century Lusignan Monastery in Kyrenia) hosts celebrated...
Restricted to the Pentadaktylos Range: Buffavento, St. Hilarion, Halevga, Bellapais, Yaïla etc. Bilz, M. (2011). "Sideritis cypria". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
checkpoint between Kato Pyrgos and Limnitis. Pierre Oberling, The road to Bellapais: the Turkish Cypriot Exodus to Northern Cyprus, Social Science Monographs...
brother, naturalist Gerald Durrell. Durrell settled in the village of Bellapais (deliberately spelt "Bellapaix" by Durrell to evoke the old name Paix)...
settlements. Many cemeteries are known, the most important of which is Bellapais Vounous on the North coast. The Middle Bronze Age, which follows the Early...
pp. 55–57. ISBN 9780275965334. Oberling, Pierre (1982). The road to Bellapais: the Turkish Cypriot exodus to northern Cyprus. Social Science Monographs...
independence of Cyprus from Britain. He conducted excavation work at Bellapais-Vounous (1931), in the Neolithic site of Khoirokitia, in the Chalcolithic...
Cathedral, Famagusta, Cyprus (note minaret added top left) Gothic arches of Bellapais Abbey in Cyprus Kolossi Castle near Limassol, Cyprus There was also crusade-related...
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