Filenews 31 January 2022 - by Dora Christodoulou
The section of Pafos 2017 "Peri Polis" and its involvement with the old and forgotten mansions of Pafos, was one of the programs of the European Capital of Culture that particularly touched the Paphians, to whom it reminded of a glorious past of the city. Almost five years since then, however, efforts are still expected from state and local bodies to revive these most characteristic examples of past times of Pafos.
The issue of the exploitation and promotion of the old mansions comes back to the forefront today on the occasion of the intervention of the Mayor of Pafos to the state for the return of the Shelley House to the municipal authority for development and the state's response that it will be used for housing a specific part of the state. Alongside this building, many others are the subject of a campaign in Paphos aimed at speeding up the processes of redevelopment and revival of such historic, albeit private, buildings.
Pafos 2017 had given rise to this aspect of the changes, transferring the people of Pafos to the city's mansions, opening for the first time in decades the famous Mansion of Loizos Philippou, in the district of Exo Vrysi.
Dr Panagiotis Touliatos, President of the Department of Architecture of Frederick University in Nicosia, elaborated at a relevant event on the particular architecture of the mansions of Pafos, while the Professor of History at Neapolis University, Dr. George Georgis, spoke about the life and work of Loizos Filippou.
