Limassol in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Limassol covers 13 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Limassol rewards a detour.

The Limassol route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 7 stops over about 1.6 km as the crow flies, from Limassol Marina to The Molos Promenade. ≈ 1.6 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Limassol Marina: The glossy luxury marina beside the old harbour, opened in 2014 as Cyprus's first superyacht marina, with waterfront villas, arcaded shopping streets, little stone bridges and canal-side restaurants. 0.3 km to the next stop
2. The Old Port: The small working fishing harbour beside the castle, the city's main port until the 1970s, where fishing boats still land their catch each morning beside the restored seafront and the marina. 0.4 km to the next stop
3. Limassol Castle: The small medieval castle by the old harbour where, by tradition, Richard the Lionheart married and crowned his queen in 1191; the Ottoman-rebuilt fort now holds the Cyprus Medieval Museum. 0.1 km to the next stop
4. The Grand Mosque: The Ottoman-era Great Mosque in the old Turkish quarter beside the castle, still serving Limassol's Muslims, raised over the remains of a Byzantine church whose apse can still be seen. 0.3 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. The Old Town: The lively historic centre around the castle, a maze of narrow lanes mixing colonial-era houses, craft workshops, churches and mosques, and the buzzing cafe-and-bar quarter of Saripolou Square. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Ayia Napa Cathedral: The twin-towered Greek Orthodox cathedral of the old town, a Byzantine-revival church of the early 1900s with a silver-blue dome, a marble iconostasis and crystal chandeliers. 0.3 km to the next stop
3. The Molos Promenade: Limassol's palm-lined seafront park on reclaimed land, a kilometre of boardwalk piers, turquoise water channels and modern sculptures, with the much-loved field of giant stone eggs by the sea.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 6 stops over about 47 km as the crow flies, from Ancient Amathus to Omodos. ≈ 47 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Ancient Amathus: The ruins of one of Cyprus's oldest city-kingdoms, on the coast east of Limassol, a great centre of Aphrodite's cult, with a hilltop temple, a colonnaded agora and a harbour now partly under the sea. 8.6 km to the next stop
2. Municipal Garden: The city's leafy central garden, laid out in British times, home to the Limassol Zoo, an open-air theatre and the long-running Cyprus Wine Festival with its giant 'vrakas' wine-grower emblem. 11 km to the next stop
3. Kolossi Castle: A compact, three-storey Crusader keep west of Limassol, long the headquarters of the Knights of St John, whose knights gave their name to the sweet wine Commandaria made on these lands. 4.2 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Ancient Kourion: A spectacular Greco-Roman city on a cliff above the sea west of Limassol, with a restored theatre overlooking the bay, the mosaic floors of the House of Eustolios, an agora and early Christian basilicas. 2.4 km to the next stop
2. Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates: One of ancient Cyprus's great religious sanctuaries, west of Kourion, where the restored columns of the Temple of Apollo, god of the woodland, stand against the sea after nearly three thousand years of worship. 20 km to the next stop
3. Omodos: A picture-perfect wine village high in the Troodos Mountains above Limassol, built around a cobbled square and the Monastery of the Holy Cross, famous for its old wine presses, lace and Commandaria country.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Updated: October 13, 2026

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