Beyond the mosaics, Paphos runs on layered culture: Byzantine icons in a bishop's palace, a 1930s market hall turned craft quarter, and an ancient odeon still hosting opera each September. This is the city Europe named Capital of Culture in 2017.
Housed in the Bishop's Palace on Andrea Ioannou, this collection holds Cyprus's oldest surviving icon — a 7th–8th century Agia Marina — plus 12th-century wood-carved iconostasis fragments and vestments. Open Mon–Fri 09:00–15:00, Sat to 13:00.
A 13th-century Frankish-Byzantine church built over a four-aisled Early Christian basilica, its 4th-century floor mosaics still visible through walkways. The marble pillar where Paul was reportedly flogged stands in the compound. Free entry, daylight hours.
The 1930s municipal power station on Nikodimou Mylona was converted into an exhibition and performance space for the 2017 Capital of Culture year. Rotating shows of Cypriot painters and printmakers occupy the turbine hall's raw concrete bays.
A restored 16th-century hammam beside the old market, with its domed calidarium roof punctured by star-shaped glass oculi that drop shafts of light onto the marble. Now used as an exhibition annexe; the dome geometry is the reason to come.
A private house-museum on Exo Vrysis assembled by the Eliades family over decades: Chalcolithic pottery, Ottoman-era chests, bridal costumes and a Hellenistic rock-cut tomb in the back garden. Open 09:00–17:00 weekdays, mornings only Sunday.
An Ottoman inn on the edge of the old Turkish quarter, its arcaded courtyard restored into artisan workshops and a café. Merchants stabled animals on the ground floor and slept above; the stone mounting blocks survive at the gate.
On Grivas Digenis Avenue, five rooms tracking the district from Neolithic Lemba to the Byzantine period — including Roman hot-water bottles moulded to fit body parts and marble statuary from the Villa of Theseus. €2.50, closed Sundays.
The 2nd-century limestone amphitheatre, restored to twelve rows, hosts the Paphos Aphrodite Festival's opera nights each September and summer theatre otherwise. Sightlines run straight past the stage to the lighthouse and the sea.
A rock-cut Hellenistic tomb reused as a Christian shrine, its walls carrying 12th-century frescoes and Crusader graffiti. The terebinth at the entrance is hung with thousands of votive handkerchiefs left by visitors seeking cures.
The 1940s covered market on Agoras Street, now split between lacework from Lefkara, basketry, halloumi vendors and a run of craft stalls in the surrounding restored arcade. Liveliest Tuesday through Saturday mornings.
In an 18th-century merchant's house 3 km east, this museum covers Cypriot rural craft: looms, olive presses, gourd vessels and the pottery of the village. The five-domed church of Agia Paraskevi with its 9th-century frescoes is a two-minute walk.
Geroskipou's Cyprus delight has held EU protected geographical indication since 2007, and the family workshops along the main street still boil rosewater syrup in copper cauldrons and cut the slabs by hand behind open doorways.