Category: Events

Larnaca Marina is celebrating its opening to the public with a two-days celebration on 28 and 29 October 2022. Come enjoy live music, food, drink and shopping at the Marina Market.
Program of Events:
October 29, 2022 | Time: 13:00 p.m.-18:00 p.m.
Mousiko Taksidi
With: George Gregoriou (Kinezo), Aristos Christodoulou, Christodoulos Christodoulou, Miros Evangelides, Panagiotis Tsappis and Loukas Kerkyras.
DJ PIETRO
October 28, 2022 | Time: 13:00 p.m.-18:00 p.m.
Laiko Xefantoma
With: Filippos Ktena, Vasiliki Xadjiadamou, Elena Andreou
Music form ASMA
Maestro Savvas Chrysanthou
DJ PIETRO
Free Entrance

In a modest ceremony held in Larnaca Marina on Thursday 4 August 2022 the founder of Kition Ocean Holdings, the company that undertook the project of the redevelopment of the Marina and Port of Larnaca, Mr. Panos Alexandrou, delivered the Iq Foil equipment to the windsurfer Iakovos Christofides.
Handing over the equipment to the athlete, Mr. Panos Alexandrou said: “Kition Ocean Marina is delivering the new IQ Foil equipment today to Iakovos and we wish him success for himself, for Cyprus and for sports in general. Larnaca Marina wanting to be close to athletes and nautical sports supports Iakovos, who is a young athlete with prospects and talent who shares his love for the sea and has big dreams and goals. Our purpose is to support the athlete initially with his equipment, buying him new professional equipment, and later helping him with other needs that will arise.”
On his part, the seventeen-year-old champion thanked Larnaca Marina for her decision to support his efforts for worldwide recognition. In particular, Iakovos Christofidis said: “I’d like to thank the Kition Ocean Marina for the purchase of my professional equipment, and I will try to bring as many successes as I can, but also participate in the development of the sport in Cyprus. Windsurfing is everything to me, it’s what I spend most of my time on, it brings me close to the sea, the waves and the feeling on the surfboard is something that blows me away. “
The delivery of the equipment took place within the framework of the athlete’s sponsorship agreement by Kition Ocean Marina. The sponsorship aims to strengthen the athlete’s effort to achieve the goals he has set for the coming years through his participation in major global events.
The delivery of the equipment was also attended by the Director of the Larnaca Marina, Captain Paris Dimitriou, and Mr. Andreas Christofidis, father of the athlete.

Who is Iakovos Christofidis?
Iakovos Christofidis turned 17 years old this July. He is one of the rising talents of Cypriot Sports. His goal is to remain consistent in his performance and continue to evolve and improve to ensure his participation in the Olympic Games to be held in Paris in 2024.
He is an athlete of the Nautical Club of Kyrenia and competes with the number 17. The young champion will change his category in August and will participate in the IQ Foil category with which he can participate in the Olympic Games. He recently participated in the Mediterranean Games “Oran 2022” in Algeria and finished at the tenth place.
He has been involved in windsurfing since the age of nine, while for the last two years he has been competing in the T293 category. The perspective he had is excellent if one considers that in his first international participation, Iakovos was ranked 5th in the Panhellenic games, in July 2021, while in August of the same year in the Pan-European games in Tallinn where 90 athletes participated, he also finished at 5th place. In November 2021 at the World Games in Italy (Garda) he finished 7th out of 90 entries. While in the European championship held in Cagliari, Italy, he finished in second place.

The Pancypriot Offshore Sailing Club (P.O.N.A.THA) organized on Saturday July 9 at 9:30am with great success the event “with open sails…ships full of smiles”. The institutions participated in the event Agalia Elpidas-Pancypriot Organization of Parents and Friends of Children with Cerebral and Other Paralysis and the Center for Disabled Adults “Dikaioma Elpidas”. The sponsor of the event was Larnaca Marina.
The children together with their parents and friends boarded 8 boats from Larnaca Marina they sailed in the bay of Larnaca where they enjoyed the beach front of the Finikoudes, the Medieval castle, saw the planes up close and learned the secrets of sailing from the captains.
Before the sea ride, a modest ceremony was held in which the Deputy Mayor of the city, Mr. Iasonas Iasonidis, the president of P.O.N.ATHA, addressed a greeting on behalf of the Mayor of Larnaca. Mr. Giorgos Kazanos, and the Director of the Marina Capt. Paris Dimitriou.
In his greeting, Deputy Mayor Mr. Iasonas Iasonidis said: “I want to thank Kition Ocean Marina who supports this event and the group P.O.N.ATHA. who cares about the quality of life of these children. Mr. Iasonidis said that if we could all help in this way, we would have a much better world than we have today”
Speaking on behalf of the organizers, the president of P.O.N.ATHA. Mr. George Kazanos expressed: “This year we managed to organize this event that we did in 2019 despite the fact that we had promised to hold it every year. Unfortunately the pandemic did not allow us to do that in 2020-2021.. We feel a satisfaction that we can offer to people who cannot enter the sea alone. I hope this year the children will enjoy beautiful moments that they enjoyed the last time we organized this event.”
Finally, the Director of Larnaca Marina Capt. Paris Dimitriou speaking on behalf of the sponsor noted: “Today, Larnaca Marina is present along with P.O.N.ATHA. because the sea is a hug for everyone and especially for children. Larnaca Marina will be next to the associations and sailing clubs in such actions.”
This was followed by lunch at the Larnaca Marina where the children shared their experience and asked the Captains questions.
The event aimed to offer the children of the Group’s organization a unique experience and help them to be inspired and engage more with the sea.

The event “European Day for the Sea in Cyprus” was held with particular success for the second year in a row, between 9-13 June, at the Larnaca marina, with the participation of the public, especially children and young people.
The event received the support of the European Commission and was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Shipping of Cyprus. The “European Day for the Sea in Cyprus” was one of the 630 events held this year across Europe in honor of the European Day for the Sea which is celebrated on May 20. The events as a whole gathered the interest of more than 200,000 European citizens. According to the European Commission, these numbers constitute a new record in the history of the European Day for the Sea!
During the five-day event in Larnaca, interactive educational and artistic workshops and games on the theme of the sea and the marine environment, marine sports activities, demonstrations of innovative marine technologies, environmental actions such as the cleaning of the Salt Lake area, carried out under the auspices of the Commissioner of the Environment, Mrs. Klelia Vassiliou, and cleaning the seabed in the area of the fishing port and the wreck of the ship “Alexandria”, a photography exhibition on the theme of the sea, as well as boat trips in the marine area of Larnaca. All these actions were aimed as a whole to creatively inform and educate the general public about the importance of the sea and bring the world, especially children and young people, closer to it.

The closing ceremony of the event took place on Monday, 13 June, at the Larnaca marina, in the presence of the Larnaca MP, Mr. Prodromos Alabritis, the Mayor of Larnaca and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CMMI, Mr. Andreas Vyras and the Director of the Directorate of Integrated Marine Ecosystem of the Deputy Ministry of Shipping, Mr. Ioannis Typaldos. During the ceremony, prizes were awarded to the winners of the 2nd competition “Name a reef”, in which all the primary schools of the province of Larnaca participated. The reef of the “Castela” Beach took the name “Alia”, from the D2 Class of the 4th Agios Fanourios Primary School in Aradippou, which was also the winner of the Competition. This competition is a continuation of last year’s successful CMMI initiative, which piqued the interest of teachers and students of primary schools in the district of Larnaca. Through this competition, the students are invited to name a natural reef in the sea area of Larnaca, effectively getting involved in a process of getting to know the marine environment and raising awareness of marine life and biodiversity protection issues. The 2nd competition was organized in cooperation with the Cyprus Youth Organization, Larnaca Tourism Development and Promotion Company and the company GeoImaging, while this year it was also held under the auspices of the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research.
The prizes of the 2nd competition prizes were awarded to the students and teachers by Mr. Prodromos Alabritis, Mr. Andreas Vyras and Mr. Ioannis Typaldos. During the awards ceremony, Mr. Vyras pointed out that “it is particularly important that our relationship with the sea is based on love and respect”, stressing that “this relationship should be cultivated from an early stage”. Referring to the role of schools, he underlined that “their support and cooperation is of crucial importance for raising awareness and educating children and young people about the protection of the marine environment and, by extension, for the promotion of an economic model of sustainable development”.

Finally, the Managing Director of CMMI, Mr. Zacharias Siokouros, thanked all the organizers and cooperating organizations that contributed to the success of the event, stating that “once again the participation and enthusiasm of people of all ages, especially children and young people, exceeded our expectations, motivating us even more to implement initiatives like this one that bring us closer and remind us how important the sea is to our survival and well-being”. He emphasized that “CMMI is a part of the socio-economic fabric of Larnaca, part of its life and progress”. Concluding his speech, he pointed out that “our aim is for this five-day celebration of the sea to include next year other coastal cities of Cyprus and to embrace even more organizations and institutions”.
20 organizations co-organized this year the “European Day for the Sea in Cyprus”. These were the following: the Cyprus Maritime and Maritime Institute (CMMI), the Municipality of Larnaca, the Foivos Stavridis Foundation-Larnaca Archives, the Cyprus Youth Organization, the Youth Makerspace Larnaka, the Larnaca Tourism Development and Promotion Company, the Foundation for Cultural Creation for Children and Youth, the Cyprus Association for the Protection of the Marine Environment (CYMEPA), the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, the Institute of Marine Affairs of the Eastern Mediterranean (MarInEM), the Larnaca Company Nappa Sea Cruises, the Cyprus Foundation of the Sea (CyFoS) organization, the company GeoImaging, the Active Zone Outdoor organization, the Cyprus Energy Office, the Cyprus Dive Center Association organization, the Larnaca Nautical Club, the Pan-Cyprus Open Sea Sailing Club, the Wellness Over Waves (WOW) organization and the 23rd Larnaca Sea Scout System. The event was sponsored by the Kition Ocean Marina.

The European Day for the Sea in Cyprus is an event celebrating the Sea. It is addressed to all citizens and especially to children and young people with the aim of raising awareness and mobilizing them about the importance of the sea and the protection of the marine environment. During the event, there will be many activities that focus on getting to know the sea and cultivating a love for it.
The event is under the auspices of the Deputy Ministry of Shipping and supported by the European Commission. It is one of the 630 events taking place this year across Europe in honor of the European Day for the Sea which is celebrated on the 20th of May. The events in their entirety are expected to gather the interest of more than 200,000 European citizens. These numbers constitute a new record in the history of the European Day for the Sea!
During the five-day event in Larnaca, there will be interactive educational and artistic workshops and games, sports activities, demonstrations of innovative marine technologies, environmental actions under the auspices of the Commissioner for the Environment Mrs. Klelia Vassiliou, a photo exhibition and boat trips in the Larnaca marine area, which together aim to creatively inform and educate the wider public about the importance of the sea and bring the world closer to it. In addition, prizes will be awarded to students of primary schools in the province of Larnaca for winning the “Name a Reef” Contest sponsored by the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research.
During the five-day event in Larnaca, there will be interactive educational and artistic workshops and games, sports activities, demonstrations of innovative marine technologies, environmental actions under the auspices of the Commissioner for the Environment Mrs. Kelia Vassiliou, a photo exhibition and boat trips in the Larnaca marine area, which together aim to creatively inform and educate the wider public about the importance of the sea and bring the world closer to it. In addition, prizes will be awarded to students of primary schools in the province of Larnaca for winning the “Name a Reef” Contest sponsored by the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research.
The European Day for the Sea in Cyprus is an event celebrating the Sea. It is addressed to all citizens and especially to children and young people with the aim of raising awareness and mobilizing them about the importance of the sea and the protection of the marine environment. Throughout its duration, there will be many activities that focus on getting to know the sea and cultivating a love for it.
The event is under the auspices of the Deputy Ministry of Shipping and supported by the European Commission. It is one of the 630 events taking place this year across Europe in honor of the European Day for the Sea which is celebrated on the 20th of May. The events as a whole are expected to gather the interest of more than 200,000 European citizens. These numbers constitute a new record in the history of the European Day for the Sea!

During the five-day event in Larnaca, there will be interactive educational and artistic workshops and games, sports activities, demonstrations of innovative marine technologies, environmental actions under the auspices of the Commissioner for the Environment Mrs. Kelia Vassiliou, a photo exhibition and boat trips in the Larnaca marine area, which together aim to creatively inform and educate the wider public about the importance of the sea and bring the world closer to it. In addition, prizes will be awarded to students from primary schools in the province of Larnaca for winning the “Name a Reef” Contest sponsored by the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research.
During the five-day event in Larnaca, there will be interactive educational and artistic workshops and games, sports activities, demonstrations of innovative marine technologies, environmental actions under the auspices of the Commissioner for the Environment Mrs. Klelia Vassiliou, a photo exhibition and boat trips in the Larnaca marine area, which together aim to creatively inform and educate the wider public about the importance of the sea and bring the world closer to it. In addition, prizes will be awarded to students of primary schools in the province of Larnaca for winning the “Name a Reef” Contest sponsored by the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research. The European Day for the Sea in Cyprus is an event celebrating the Sea. It is addressed to all citizens and especially to children and young people with the aim of raising awareness and mobilizing them about the importance of the sea and the protection of the marine environment. Throughout its duration, there will be many activities that focus on getting to know the sea and cultivating a love for it.

The event is under the auspices of the Deputy Ministry of Shipping and supported by the European Commission. It is one of the 630 events taking place this year across Europe in honor of the European Day for the Sea which is celebrated on May 20. The events as a whole are expected to gather the interest of more than 200,000 European citizens. These numbers constitute a new record in the history of the European Day for the Sea!
During the five-day event in Larnaca, there will be interactive educational and artistic workshops and games, sports activities, demonstrations of innovative marine technologies, environmental actions under the auspices of the Commissioner for the Environment Ms. Clelia Vassiliou, a photo exhibition and boat trips in the Larnaca marine area, which together aim to creatively inform and educate the wider public about the importance of the sea and bring the world closer to it. In addition, prizes will be awarded to students of primary schools in the province of Larnaca for winning the “Name a Reef” Contest sponsored by the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research.
During the five-day event in Larnaca, there will be interactive educational and artistic workshops and games, sports activities, demonstrations of innovative marine technologies, environmental actions under the auspices of the Commissioner for the Environment Mrs. Klelia Vassiliou, a photo exhibition and boat trips in the Larnaca marine area, which together aim to creatively inform and educate the wider public about the importance of the sea and bring the world closer to it. In addition, prizes will be awarded to students of primary schools in the province of Larnaca for winning the “Name a Reef” Contest sponsored by the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research.