Police, or Art Deco Citadel
Point 2/15
1956–1958
Year of construction
Xenophon Ioannides (u.d.)
Architect
In the troubled years before Cyprus gained independence, the island’s police had the burden of dealing with the political opposition: the armed EOKA guerrillas led by General Grivas and the Communist Party (based, incidentally, in Limassol). This explains the large size and fortress-like character of the Police building in the square, which was designed by Xenophon Ioannides, an employee of the Public Works Department in Nicosia.
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I would like to draw your attention to the sudden combination of elements of Art Deco architecture and elements of traditional Byzantine architecture here, namely decorative semicircles which are curiously combined with polygonal towers. You’d asked me: what’s inside the towers, behind the concretebrise-soleils? Stairs to smoke and chat in a cool place.
Now we cross the road to watch the ensemble of the first Technical School in Limassol.
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