The second largest town in Cyprus and a large cosmopolitan resort, Limassol lies between two great kingdoms of antiquity - Curium to the west and Amathus to the east. Here, in 1291, were the headquarters of the Knights Templar and the Knights of St John of Jerusalem and here, in Limassol Castle, Richard the Lionheart married Berengaria of Navarre. The Roman theatre of Curium lies 11 miles away, nearer is the Crusader castle of Kolossi and the magnificent pine-clad mountains of Troodos are just half an hour’s drive north.
