Christodoulos Sozos Monument
A town's mayor, a private's uniform, and a monument with nothing under it.
Listen to this place’s story in Peplos.
How the story begins
The mayor of Limassol went to war without telling his wife. Christodoulos Sozos was forty. In the autumn of 1912 Greece was fighting the Ottoman Empire, and Sozos, a strong supporter of union between Cyprus and Greece, sailed for Athens with a small Red Cross unit. By one historian's account, he kept it from his wife Ermioni, his four-year-old son Zinon and his seven sisters, because he feared they would stop him.
The rest is in the app. Peplos plays the full story when you reach the place. You can also listen ahead of time.
Visiting
Limassol Municipal Garden, 28 October Avenue, on the seafront about 1.7 kilometres north-east of the castle. Check the garden’s opening hours before you go.
On the way
Sources
- Open University of Cyprus, Public Art in Cyprus: Christodoulos Sozos bust
- CVAR Severis: Mayor of Limassol Christodoulos Sozos 1872-1912
- Wikipedia: Christodoulos Sozos (citing Papapolyviou's 1996 thesis)
- Andreas Kapandreou, 2017: Michaelides' poem for Christodoulos Sozos
- Limassol Municipality: Christodoulos Sozos bust unveiled, 2018
- Asmussen, Early Conflicts between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot Communities, The Cyprus Review
- KEDE: Christodoulos Sozos (PDF)
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