Filenews 3 January 2026 - 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 opened by the Municipality of Paphos and other city officials, will become a reality as everything shows, but not immediately due to winter. Given the winter season that shows intense phenomena this year, these protective materials will remain in the area and their movement, for aesthetic reasons, will have as everything seems to have a horizon in the summer of the year we entered.
Information from "F" states that the request of the Municipality and other organized groups of the province is being treated with understanding and a positive perspective by the competent state departments and that the coming summer will be a period of practical developments on the issue.
The position of the authorities, according to this information, is that given the winter season, the cement blocks are considered beneficial to remain in their place in the coming months to ensure the proper operation of the harbor during the winter months and to move them smoothly when the weather conditions favor it with the arrival of summer. 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.
We remind you that the issue of the cement blockades that protect the square of the Castle of Kato Paphos was recently opened, after the corresponding removal of these materials from the areas of Paphos airport, where they had been placed for security reasons in recent years. On the occasion of 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 by 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.
