page_title: Galata, Cyprus
section_title: Name of village and history
hierarchical_section_title: Galata, Cyprus / Name of village and history
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kirche des Erzengels Michael in Galata, Zypern.
context_page_description: Galata is a village in the Solea valley, located about 60 km west of the capital Nicosia, at an altitude of 620 m in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. It is a popular summer tourist destination for its cooler climate in the summer months. It is also well known on the island for its fruit produce. In Galata there is Panagia tis Podithou, church, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site along with nine other Painted Churches in the Troödos Region.
context_section_description: According to Greek mythology, Cyprus was the first land that Aphrodite set foot on; where 
  Pygmalion begged her to let him be with the statue that he created in her image.  Aphrodite brought the statue to life and Pygmalion married Galatea.
  According to one version of villages name first settlers came from Galatia in Asia Minor.
  According to other version village was populated with shepherds who sold milk, that is milkmens 
  (in Greek galataes).Leontios Machairas in his Chronicle mentioned that Galata belongs to feud of king after 1196. From his chronicles could be concluded that during Lusignan Period Galata belonged to de Giblet family. Demetrios de Coron, senior officer of House of Lusignan, after fall of Lusignans  retired close to Galata, where he built the monastery  Panagia tis Podithou in 1502.  Russian traveler and pilgrim Vasyl Hryhorovych-Barskyi visited Galata and wrote 1735. Edward Stafford of the English Consulate of the island lived in Galata in 1691. In 1910, Galata opened its first hotel.
caption: Panagia Theotokos
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