The Municipal amphitheatre is located on Iroon Street, next to the Theme Park. It has a capacity of 800 seats and is a real gem for the municipality and the entire region.

Its construction has largely contributed to the cultural development of the municipality and the region.

It has all the necessary infrastructure and in the summer it hosts many cultural, artistic and other events.

Cultural Centre of Occupied Famagusta

The Cultural Centre of Occupied Famagusta was built in 1998 on the demarcation line near the Street Barricade of Deryneia and hosts the anti-occupation events of the Municipality of Famagusta and other Bodies and Organizations.

At the site of the Cultural Center a canteen and an observatory is operated. Visitors can borrow binoculars to look at our beloved city and almost all our occupied land from a distance.

In the Centre’s multipurpose hall video-films about Famagusta are shown to the multitudes of foreigners who visit the center daily, as well as to pupils of schools of Primary and Secondary Education, which incorporate the visit of the Cultural Center in their educational excursions programs.

Organized art exhibitions (photography, painting, sculpture, etc.) and other cultural events also take place at the centre, both indoors and during the summer months outdoors, in the small amphitheater. The spaces of the Centre are also used for holding seminars, congresses, conferences, etc.

Information material in various languages is available free for visitors and guests.

Opening hours

Monday – Friday: 7.30 – 16.30

Saturday: 9.00 – 16.30

For guided group tours contact tel : 23-740860 / 2 or by fax: 23-740861, or email: cultural.centre@cytanet.com.cy

Strawberry Festival

The name of Deryneia is directly linked to the cultivation of strawberries in our country, since the first strawberry plantations in Cyprus on a commercial basis were cultivated in Deryneia by the pioneer farmer M. Mitsio Yannoukou, more than 55 years ago.

Today, despite the occupation and the loss of 70% of the region after the tragic events of 1974, Deryneia still holds by far the leading position in strawberry cultivation and production in Cyprus, in both quantity and quality.

This in fact is manifested throughout all the events of the Cyprus Strawberry Festival, which has been organized in the municipality every two years since 1999.

The aim of the festival is to promote the innovative cultivation and distribution of the strawberry fruit and its by-products in combination with the presentation of its quality as part of a cultural and artistic program.

To thousands of visitors of the festival, locals and foreigners lots of fresh strawberries and various preparations thereof, such as strawberry-juice, -jam, -liqueurs, -sweets, -ice-creams, etc. are offered free of charge by the passionate producers, prepared with enthusiasm by their wives and family.