The wreck of the Demetrios II - stranded on rocks just off Chlorakas, Paphos, Cyprus, 15 January 2008.
As you travel along the main road from Paphos to Coral Bay, you can’t miss the shipwreck just off the coast at Chlorakas.
Local knowledge of what it is and how it comes to be there is pretty thin. So for the curious, here’s the story.
EOKA Museum, Chlorakas, Paphos
Chlorakas – between Paphos and Coral Bay – is famous as the landing site of Colonel George Grivas in 1954 at the start of his guerrilla campaign against the occupying British.
The beach where he came ashore is known as Dhigenis’ landing.
Near the landing site is a small museum dedicated to EOKA. Its centrepiece is a fishing trawler that returned George Grivas, the militant super Hellenist and military leader, to Cyprus after years of exile.
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