When a plague of snakes almost prevented the building of what is now known as the Holy Monastery ... originally began on the monastery in 327 CE on the island of Cyprus under the patronage of ...

Cyprus is an island with a strong Christian ... the construction of numerous churches and monasteries including the Holy Monastery of Saint Nicholas of the Cats in Limassol at the beginning ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.