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International Map Collector's Society
18th International Symposium
Nicosia, Cyprus
October 14th - 16th 2003

For the second time our hosts are the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, which previously entertained us in 1984. We are delighted to be returning to Cyprus for our 22nd Symposium, and I am sure that we shall be made as welcome this year as last time. The Symposium's venue is within the Venetian walls of the old city of Nicosia. The theme will be "The Cartography of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean."

Preliminary Programme

  Monday 14th October
  p.m. Registration upon arrival in hotels
Evening Free
   
  Tuesday 14th October
09.30 Registration at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
10.00 Sightseeing tour in the old city of Nicosia
Visit to Cyprus Museum and Famagusta Gate
12.30 Presentation of the new publicaton on the Map Collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
13.30 Lunch
16.30 Official Opening of the Symposium at the Cultural Foundation
Paper 1 - Maps of Cyprus from the Collection of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
18.00 An Introduction to the exhibition "The European cartographers of Cyprus, 16th - 20th Centuries"
19.00 Opening of the exhibition organised by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
Reception hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
   
  Wednesday 15th October
10.00 Visit to Machairas Monaster and Figardou village
13.30 Lunch
16.30 Paper 2 - "Mare nostrum, our sea, their sea, your sea, our sea as we saw it"
17.00 Paper 3 - "The Modest Life and Times of Joseph Roux: AHydrographer of 18th century Marseille."
18.00 Visit to Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia. Opening of the exhibition "Cyprus-Jewel in the Crown of Venice"
Reception offered by the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia
   
  Thursday 16th October
09.30 Paper 4 - "The World are looking to us ... for Cyprus - The first British Admiralty survey of the island by Thomas Graves in 1849"
10.00 Paper 5 - The Cartographic Collection of the Leventis Municipal Museum
   
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Seventh Biennial Lecture on Cyprus Cartography sponsored by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation - "A new addition to the catalogue of Cypriot Cartography: the Great Map of the Island by Leonida Attar 1542"
12.00 Drinks offered by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
12.30 Paper 6 - "Wine Roads, Robbers and Land Claims: Some interesting maps of Cypruis in British Government Records"
13.15 Reception by Mr Nicolas Efrem
20.30 Symposium Dinner at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Nicosia
Official Close of the Symposium
   
 
Optional Tours
 

Before the Symposium, three optional tours are available, starting from Larnaca or Paphos.

I. 9th -13th October Tour of Cyprus

II. 12th -13th October Antiquities, South coast

III. 12th -13th October Byzantine Churches

   
  Tour of Cyprus
   
  Thursday 9th October
  Arrive at Larnaca International Airport
Hotel: Sun Hall in Larnaca; Dinner at hotel
   
  Friday 10th October
  Choirokoitia archaeological site, Lefkara village
Lunch at Lefkara village
Kolossi castle, Kourion archaeological site, Sanctuary of Apollo Ylatis
Arrive in Paphos: Hotel Aloe or Louis Imperial; Dinner at hotel
   
  Saturday 11th October
  Mosaics of Paphos; Tombs of the kings
Lunch at Paphos
Agios Neophytos Monastery
Hotel Aloe or Louis Imperial; Dinner at hotel
   
  Sunday 12th October
  Kykkos Monastery in Troodos mountains
Lunch at Kalopanayiotis village
Kalopanyiotis village, Agios Ioannis Lambadistis Monastery
Arrive in Platres village; Hotel: Forest Park; Dinner at hotel
   
  Monday 13th October
  Church of Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis in Kakopetria
Lunch at Kakopetria village
Church of Panagia Podithou, Asinou church
Arrive in Nicosia for Symposium registration at hotel
   
  Antiquities, South Coast
   
  Sunday 12th October
  Arrive at Larnaca or Paphos International Airport
Hotel in Paphos: Aloe or Louis Imperial; Dinner at hotel
   
  Monday 13th October
  Mosaics of Paphos; Tombs of the kings
Lunch at Paphos
Kourion and Choirokoitia archaeological sites, Kolossi castle,
Arrive in Nicosia for Symposium registration at hotel
   
  Byzantine Churches
   
  Sunday 12th October
  Arrive at Larnaca or Paphos International Airport
Hotel in Paphos: Aloe or Louis Imperial; Dinner at hotel
   
  Monday 13th October
  Mosaics of Paphos;
Lunch at Troodos
Agios Nikolaos tis Stegis, Panagia Podithou, Asinou church
Arrive in Nicosia for Symposium registration at hotel
   
 
 
Sebastian Munster - Cyprus - 1550
With kind permission of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
   
 
 
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