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Arxaggelos Mixail Multi-Cache

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TheSnowdens: The tree that this was on was earmarked for the chop two years ago. The tree is still there...but the box is not.

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Hidden : 4/24/2016
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is in the beautiful village of Anogyra.

In the centre of the village stands the old church of Archangel Michael with a magnificent sundial over the south entrance. The church's other entrance is built in the gothic style. The woodcut women's loft is unique in its kind in the Greek Orthodox Church. There are valuable old icons in the church, the "iconostasi" (icon screen) will impress the visitor with its gold-filled carvings and its venerable, old icons. The Church precinct is decorated by two trees of the Moracea family - very rare in Cyprus. They look like sycamores and are in fact a pair, male and female, since only one of them produces fruits. The name of the trees is "Maclura Pomifera" (osage orange or hedge apple) and the yellow-green fruits have a diameter of up to 15 centimetres and are used for handicraft purposes.

The most impressive part of the village is the large paved central plaza surrounded by traditional, stone-made houses. A stone-made spring with a Mediaeval sculpture, considered to be one of the very few found in Cyprus, stands at the upper part of the plaza.

On entering the village you cannot fail to notice the renovated two room building that houses the Pasteli Museum. Here, the visitor can see all the equipment used for the making of the very sweet "pasteli" from carobs which come from trees all around the village.

Quite close to the museum are two small parks dedicated, and recorded on the memorials, one to the soldier missing-in-action in 1974, Panicos Othonos and the other to the fallen, reserve second-lieutenant, Nicos Polycarpou.

Moving on from the plaza towards the east, you pass through the paved, verdant alleys and come to the village boundary where the original Elementary School stands in silence, gazing out at Episkopi Bay and where events organised by the Village Association, particularly the "Pasteli Festival", is held. It is organised in mid September each year and attracts many people from all over Cyprus and abroad.

Anogyra, it really is worth visiting!

To find the cache you will need to go to the Monument decicated to Elisseos Papaelisseou.  Here you will find some dates ABCD - EFGH

You should now have enough information to establish GZ for cache location. Due to other cache locations in this area GZ is a short drive away where you find parking for one car.

The cache can be found at:-

N34 CC. (H+A) (G-H) (D)

E032 HH. (A+E) (G) (F-C)

Checksum = 55

 

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ab sbepr naq ab gbbyf ner arrqrq gb npprff gur ybt. Lbh bayl arrq gb oevat gvzr naq cngvrapr jvgu lbh. Cyrnfr erfrg gur pnpur nf sbhaq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)