Charity Fashion Show at Aliathon Holiday Village

Volunteers of Love

Under the Aegis of the Mayor of Pafor Mr Savva Verga Aliathon Holiaday Village today afternoon hosted a charity Fashion Show in order to donate the earnings in the Kivotos Foundation.

The Kivotos foundation is  helping children with special needs and relies on donations from individuals, fund-raising and generous organizations to cover its expenses.

 This afternoon the Aliathon's entertainment venue was full of people that came to watch the show and donate money to the Foundation.

The catwalk consisted off volunteers that donated their time,clothes,shoes accessories in order to create an amazing fashion show.The majority of the local shops of Paphos participated at the event as well as other businesses and as of course a part of the Local community such as the Mayor of Paphos who funded the event.

 

All of the ladies ,gents and of course the many many children who walked on the catwalk by representing different brand and shops were all volunteered!!The hero of the day though was  young Andreas who walked through the catwalk with happiness and pride!

We are always proud to host that kind of events.No matter any crisis we might going through above all we are humans and today Aliathon Holiday Village had the Honor to experience and participate in one of those cases that a that a hole city showed its sensitive side and helped by raising money for Kivotos Foundation!

Thank you all so much for your help and we would like to congratulate the Volunteers of Love and the Municipality of Paphos for their help to those children and the Foundation.

Photo Competition

 Enter our Photo Contest to win a complimentary room for one  week and a free spa treatment  in Aliathon Holiday Village!!!!

 

Holy Thursday

Holy Thursday is dedicated to the Last Supper which is the last meal that Jesus had with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion.

 

  Ultima Cena(Last Supper) as Leonardo Da Vinci named the painting above is the day when Jesus said to his students that he is going to be betrayed from one of them and the he is going to leave them.

After the end of their last meal Jesus was betrayed, arrested, tried and then crucified.

 The traditions and customs of Holy Thursday is to paint the egg red, bake the traditional lenten cookies in the shape of braids and bake the flaounes wich is a kind of cheese cakemade of short crust with a cheese, egg and mint filling, formed into triangular and square shapes.

  The eggs are painted red from the blood of Jesus. Based on several traditions this customs comes from Mary Magdalen.

She went to the Emperor of Rome and greeted him with "Christ has risen," 

Then the Emperor pointed to an egg on his table and stated, "Christ has no more risen than that egg is red." 

After making this statement it is said the egg immediately turned blood red. 

At Saturday we are going to paint our eggs red , 

teach our guests hoe to make flaounes 

and celebrate the resuraction of Jesus with Greek

 music and dancers 

                  KOPIASTE!!!!!!!!

Holy Wednesday

This day is dedicated to the sinful women who was forgiven from her sins because she showed great faith in the Lord......

 

Holy Wednesday based on the tradition has two different celebrations.

The first one is relevant to the story of Mary Magdalen the sinful women who anoints Jesus' feet and wiped them away with her hair..

In the morning everyone is going to the church to listen the Hymn of the Fallen Woman, which tells the story of Mary Magdalen and the forgiveness of her sins.

This hymn is chanted only once a year and considered a musical high-point of the Holy Week.

 The same day after the hymn of the Fallen Woman people remain at the church to listen the priest reading the Seven Gospels.

The Seven Gospels are read along with seven wishes in order to bless the oil we use to treat mental and physical illnesses.  

After the sequence of the Gospels the priest  is crossing the faithfuls with oil on their forehead, their cheeks, face and hands.

Aliathon is getting ready for the Easter are 

you coming to join us?

 

Holy Monday

The First Day of The Holy week signals the start of all the rituals and feasts until the day of the Ascension.

 

Holy Monday is dedicated to Joseph dearest son of Jacob who was sold by  his brothers to the merchants from Egypt.On the same day in the church people go to hear the  parable of the fig tree that Jesus cursed when he entered Jerusalem.

For most people Holy Monday is the day they start the feast until Saturday Night (Resurrection of Jesus) that they will receive the holy communion.

Continence(feast) means for the Orthodox party that for the rest of this week they will not eat: milk,cheese,meat,oil fish and wine.  

In some villages the feast is changing from today and people fed them selves only with the bread and water until the day of the Holy communion.

Finally today all the women  especially on the villages since early in the morning start to whitened with lime  their courtyards, paint red the pots and planted various flowers.

Join Aliathon Holiday Village for experiencing 

a traditional Easter

Easter in Cyprus

Easter is the greatest holiday in the Orthodox Church.The Holy Week that ends on the Saturday of the resurrection of Jesus is a set of customs and traditions with a lot of feasts,rituals, cooking, dancing and singing.

 

   

Today is the Palm Sunday (Kyriaki twn Vaiwn as it is called)

where people are going to the Church holding olive or palm leaves.

According to the tradition the leaves have to stay in the Church until the  day of the Ascension in ordered to be blessed. 

After the Ascension feast people will take them back to their home put them in a small sachet and they will keep them for the rest of the year in their icon stands. 

 

A custom that is also common for Palm Sunday is for children to make crosses from olive or palm leaves and hung them in the front doors of their home or in their lapel.

This custom days back to the  triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, where people greeted him holding olive tree branches and palm. 

-During the next week Aliathon Holiday village will keep you updated about all the different traditions and feasts that Cypriots adhere through these Holy days.

-Stay tuned and come to celebrate with us a traditional Cypriot Ester!

The wedding of the year...

Yesterday we celebrated the most romantic wedding/vow renewal of the year!!! Steven and Sally renewed their vows in the pool in the rain!

Steven suffers from a rare illness and wanted to do something special for his wife to remind her how much he loved her. So Stephen with the help of the staff and management of the Aliathon along with the staff from First Choice and our lovely guests arranged for the ceremony to take place as a surprise for Sally. We picked the date, bought the rings, ordered the flowers and the champagne, helped Steven get ready and yesterday at 14:30, in the  rain, in the pool Steven reminded Sally just how grateful he was to have her in his life.

It was the most touching and romantic gesture we have seen all year and we wish Sally and Steven all the best for their future.

                                CONGRATULATIONS Mr and Mrs Collins!!!!!!