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The Agia Napa Monastery, located in the centre, is the most important of the area’s attractions. Other places of interest include a monolith reputed to have remarkable healing powers, a number of Byzantine chapels and tombs that have been excavated to the west of the town.

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It seems that during the iconoclastic period of the 8th and 9th centuries, this cave had been chosen as a hiding place for the icon. Even after its discovery, the icon was not moved, but was given the name of the Virgin Mary of Agia Napa.

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The nearby Agia Thekla Chapel is also found at the western edge of Agia Napa, at the boundary between Agia Napa and the village of Sotira. Not far from this chapel is a cave known as the �catacomb of Agia Thekla.�

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A stepped road leads down to the rectangular entrance of the tombs; and in the interior, most of the chambers appear to be almost identical, with a rectangular trench appearing the middle, at a level slightly lower than the road itself, and three benches located at the side of each of the chambers.

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