Inside, there is now a museum and archive of the oral and written history of the city (Pattichion Municipal Museum — Historical Archive), most of the interiors of the British period have been preserved.

The culture of public parks and Sunday family walks in the fresh air is a 19th-century phenomenon, and the British Empire knew a lot about it, creating parks and gardens for noblemen and simple workers, such as the famous Victoria Park in the East End of London. In 1911, it was Limassol’s turn: the British administration under suggestion of the municipal authority acquired for this purpose “the fields of Chrysostomides.” Over time, it turned into a lovely garden decorated, in the spirit of the times, with a collection of replicas of ancient Greek statues, sphinxes, and kiosks. A bird nursery appeared, and later a rare collection of insects collected by George Mavromoustakis, a famous entomologist and bee-keeper, had been housed here, but not survived to this day.

After World War II, in the 1950s, a zoo set up here. It was installed through the local residents’ kind involvement: one lady found it in her heart to donate her monkey, and other empathic residents followed her example. A rich American decided to part with his little elephant Julia, who was in Singapore at that moment. After moving to the island, Julia became the darling of the city. This is how the zoo was created through activism.

The park also houses a monument to modernism, a café-bar (1962) by the architect Foivos Polydoridis. This airy one-story building, which Limassol residents loved to take pictures with in the 1960s–1980s, is, unfortunately, in poor condition.