Cartographies of memory

Imagining and re-imagining a town in Cyprus

Why didn’t I take a picture of that map while I had the chance? It was a paper street map of Paphos, framed and hanging like wall art in the entrance of the apartment I was staying in. I was there in 2018, my third stay in Paphos. I’d spent enough time in this town to be familiar with the layout of one or two neighbourhoods. But this map, copyright 1994, was unrecognizable as the Paphos I knew.

Artemis Cynthia complex in the neighbourhood called Universal. This whole area is just green space on the 1994 map of Paphos.