Stavrovouni: Danger signal from the monks for a landslide – Huge cracks in the groundtranslated

The monks of the Holy Monastery of Stavrovouni are sounding the alarm about a large landslide on the mountain of "Evkali", in the community of Pyrgons of Larnaca, expressing fears for the safety of those in the area. In a letter they sent today to the director of the Department of Urban Planning and Housing, Kyriakos Koundouros, and which was obtained by filenews, they state that "there is a serious safety problem in the area due to an active landslide inside the Quarry, but also in the area to the north, above it", where the Metochi of the Monastery is located.

The monks remind the director of a similar case of geohazard about ten years ago, in Mamonia of Paphos, where, as they note, with his own actions "he closed the Quarry before the exhaustion of its reserves", as the stability of the area had been affected.

They had previously written a letter to the President of the Republic, on September 25, in which they described the situation in Metohi. As they complain, the building of Hesychastiriou is leaning, while the cracks in the ground are constantly widening, with one of them reaching a width of 1.20 meters and a depth of 4.30 meters.

In the same letter they had also conveyed...