Alassa, our village community is only 12 kilometers from Limassol. It’s on the main road traveling from Limassol to Troodos. Alassa village is built northern of Kouris dam and has a magnificent view of the dam. The village moved to its present location in 1985 because of the construction of Kouris dam. The history of Alassa began in the 17th century B.C. and through the years slowly the village was abandoned. Alassa village was revived again in 1881 A.D. as a small settlement of 23 residents. At around 1930 there was a substantial increase of its population. Today, in 2005, there are 200 residents living in Alassa village. In that village there is a restaurant at the top of the hill and a beautiful park that has a variety of birds and animals and takes its name after the village, “Alassa Park”, but also Kouris tavern with is located just outside the village, on the main road to Platres. Before the village had moved to its present location, it was allocated on the right bank of Kouris river valley. The villages cultivated the land and produced vineyards, almond trees, olive trees, the famous carobs and a variety of citrus fruit. Today there are twenty farms around the village with live stocks. In 1984 was the time when the first archeological excavation began in Pano Mantilaris location. Nobody could foresee that Alassa would be known in three continents. The interest for Alassa began in 1988 when the first seminar took place at Cambridge University. In 1993 the findings of he excavations were presented at the American Archeological institute in Washington D.C. In 1995 the same findings were presented to four Australian Universities: Melbourne, Sydney, Campera and Latirobe. On the 18th of January 2000 those findings were presented at the American Academy of Athens. The invitation to present the findings from the later Bronze Age in the louver Museum of Paris shows clearly the valuable worth of those findings. For three months inside the Louvre Pyramid there was a huge poster advertising the Alassa community. We will also like to mention that in the location “Pano Mantilaris” archeologists excavated the biggest building of late copper age that has ever been found in Cyprus which occupies 1440sq. meters.
