Overview

The monument of the EOKA fight 1955-59, is found in a forest region at the top of mountain "Egklisi", between the villages Kato Amiantos and Pelendri of Pitsilia, a region in which bloody conflicts took place at the period of the EOKA fight. It is a multifunctional monumental work, dedicated to every person that was involved in the EOKA fight: to the protagonists, to the heroes, to the fighters, to the victims and to the entire Cypriot population, which with its energetic support, contributed in the success of the fight. Particularly the monument honors those who gave their life to open the way towards freedom. With the construction of the monument the Greek Cypriot population paid its debt to the heroes, as it was written by the leader of the EOKA fight General Georgios Grivas Digenis, just before he left Cyprus after the agreements of Zurich-London. The monument is constituted from various departments, natural and artificial, that are linked together to glorify the freedom of Cyprus and the fight of EOKA. At an area at the top of the mountain, it is found the Monument of Freedom and the Chapel of Virgin Mary Eleftherotria. At another area, roughly one kilometer below the top area, they are found the porticos and the room of the fighters. A conjunctive ring between these two basic synthetic parts of the monument is the Steps of Freedom (skalopatia tis lefterias). There are 108 steps equal to the number of the heroes of the EOKA fight that gave their lives for the freedom of Cyprus, which were shaped in an uphill path of 650 meters, that passes through a forest region that connects the area of the porticos with the Monument of freedom.