Sources Thermales de Platres

Platres is a mountain resort village in the Limassol district of Cyprus at 1,100 metres in the Troodos Mountains, historically the preferred summer retreat of the British colonial administration and later of the Cypriot and Lebanese elite, who built grand early 20th-century hotels in the pine forests to escape the Mediterranean coastal heat. Its bicarbonate spring waters filter through the ancient ophiolite complex of the Troodos massif — one of the most scientifically important exposures of oceanic lithosphere on land in the world — producing naturally cool and mineral-rich waters in a forest setting of extraordinary geological interest. The grand colonial hotels, the cedar and pine forests of the Troodos, the wild orchids of the mountain meadows, and the bicarbonate springs make Platres a retreat of exceptional natural and heritage value in the highest mountains of Cyprus.