Moutoullas

MOUTOULLAS (Greek Μουτουλλάς ) is a mountain village in Cyprus, which lies at an altitude of about 900 m in the upper Marathasa valley of the Troodos Mountains.

MOUTOULLAS is best known as the site of Panagia tou Moutoulla, one of the ten World Heritage Site by UNESCO belonging barn roof churches. This is located on a rocky promontory at the village cemetery and has been built around the year 1280. Also located in the church art historically significant frescoes " Nativity " and " presentation in the temple " should be created at this time. The village is famous in Cyprus also due to a great tasting mineral water, which is sold all over the island. Another culturally and historically significant building in the immediate vicinity of the town is the monastery of Agios Ioannis Lampathisdis Kalopanagiaotis the neighboring village two kilometers away, it is also on the World Heritage List. At this medieval monastery, which consists of three churches and a few houses, a stone bridge leads over the Setrachos Bach.

At the 2001 census MOUTOULLAS had 294 inhabitants.

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