Paphos - St Neophytos Monastery

(Local Name: Páfos - Moní Áyios Neófytos) The monastery was founded in the late 12th century by the Cypriot hermit and writer Neophytos. Neophytos wrote a large number of theological treatises, including his Ritual Ordinance for Monastic Life and his history of Cyprus entitled "Concerning the Misfortunes of the Land of Cyprus."

The "Egkleistra", an enclosure carved out of the mountain, contains some of the finest Byzantine frescoes dating from the 12th to 15th centuries. In the monastery's church there is an interesting ecclesiastical museum. There is also a frieze narrating the Akaithos hymn, which tells of the story of the life of Christ. The saint's bones are in a wooden sarcophagus and his skull in a