Time to explore mobility in Platres together
Paris Dimitriadis
After decades of melancholic withering, a series of new development projects in the area show a clear desire for revival and a particularly dynamic comeback of Platres, and perhaps now that autumn is starting to fall and in temperature – not only in the calendar – it will be a very good time for to visit the once classy mountain resort of Limassol and explore the new mobility in the area on our own.
Although the reality is that most projects, some of them particularly grand, will take a few years to complete. to be completed, some renovations of old hotels and restaurants have already taken place and some places have already reopened, suggesting that a one-day or even two-day and three-day excursion to Platres has already become a must.
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In particular, a historic hotel that first operated in the distant forties and is waiting for us to revive its old glory is the charming Petit Palais, which now has modern and elegant, tasteful rooms, an indoor restaurant that turns into a hanging terrace with a panoramic view of the vastness forest and the long-known open-air cafe in its front view, which has always been a point of reference in the most central part of Platres.
Then, you will head to Platres if you are in the mood for waffles, crepes and especially the delicious loukumades offered by the unique Antonis cafe under the coolness of the pine trees, while needless to mention the emblematic Forest Park, where in such a season you will go to enjoy Brandy Sour , as the king of Egypt Farouk drank it as well as for a range of delicious drinks, iced or hot as well as for the rich menu of its restaurants with the unique aesthetic that is
In the village of kings and poets recently opened a special restaurant that also functions as a wine bar, the name and deed “Kings & Poets'. The resto bar is located inside the Semiramis Lodge hotel and offers careful Mediterranean cuisine as well as a wide variety of course in good wines.
The name of the village is Platres, although it is also usually called Pano Platres, due to the existence of a neighboring village called Kato Platres.
There are three versions about how the village got its name. According to the first version, the village was named so from the word platra which means “she who weaves and sells”, because of a weaver who lived in the village and wove and sold her products.
A second version wants Platres, as a fief during the Frankish period, to be called platre, which in French means “white, plaster”. During that period, on the south side of Troodos, above today's Platres, there was a Frankish monastery whose monks were dressed in white and were called Platrai. It is assumed that the village got its name from this. Finally, a third version wants the village to take its name from the word “platsa”, which later became Platra and then Platres.
In Pano Platres there are also wonderful nature trails that cross the village, such as the Caledonia trail that leads to the homonymous waterfall, the Millomeri trail that also leads to the homonymous waterfall and the Milia Bridge trail.
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In the middle of the last century, Platres was a destination for dignitaries and kings, and the seductive aura that never stopped emitting from the aristocratic resort of mountainous Limassol seems to be regaining its old, powerful pulse. New hotels, upgrades of existing ones and acquisitions of smaller leisure businesses with a total value of around 100 million euros prove this to be true. The history of Platra repeats itself 100 years later, with millions of investments to upgrade it, the President of the Troodos Network and Platra community leader Panagiotis Papadopoulos has characteristically stated.
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