Filenews 3 December 2025 - by Dora Christodoulou
The removal of the cement blocks from the square area of the Castle in the port of Kato Paphos, an issue that has recently been discussed by the Municipality of Paphos and other city officials, will not be implemented immediately. Given the winter season which we are slowly entering, these protective materials will remain in the space and the decision to move them, for aesthetic reasons, will be made within 2026 with a horizon of next summer.
This is what the information of "F" states from someone qualified by the competent state departments that have become recipients of the request of the local authorities. The position of the authorities, according to this information, is that given the winter season, it is considered beneficial for the cement blocks to remain in place in the coming months to ensure the proper operation of the harbour during the winter months and their movement, if such a decision is made official, would be done unhindered when the weather conditions favour it with the new year. At the same time, it is judged that the aesthetic reasons cited by the Paphos agents are no longer so pressing, given the reduction of the tourist flow and the removal of the cement blocks will be more evident when the mass tourist flow of next summer begins.
The issue of the cement blocks that protect the area of Kato Paphos Castle was recently raised, after the corresponding removal of these materials from the areas of Paphos airport, where they had been placed for security reasons in recent years. Following that removal, the Municipality of Paphos and other bodies stressed that the cement blockades in the port of Paphos have a life many times longer than those moved at the airport, since for more than 20 years they have been placed on the wall that extends along the land area, in order to protect the Castle Square from the waves of the open sea behind it. They also ask for their removal, highlighting the unsightliness of the existence of these huge volumes next to a monument of world cultural heritage and in a wider natural environment of unique beauty.
The municipal authority stressed in its performances that the cement blocks create negative impressions and comments from the thousands of daily visitors to the area and emphasizes that even in the summer months, when there is no issue with the waves, they are not removed as originally agreed when they were first installed.
Paphos requests their permanent removal and the preparation of studies by the competent state authorities to take other, more appropriate measures to protect the land area of the Castle from severe weather phenomena. The fact that the concrete blocks continue to remain there, it is pointed out, only reduces the unique natural beauty and the visibility of the Castle itself, while also preventing visitors from having an unobstructed view of the open sea.
