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Melandra House is located in Yeniboğaziçi and considered to be a culture house, as it aims to pass on Turkish Cypriot culture to future generations. It wishes for peace and it believes in a bi-communal community. Technically, it is a boutique hotel, restaurant and museum. It is a must visit for people interested in the culture of Turkish Cyprus.
In the enormous garden, you see two huge houses, a restaurant and a bar. Melandra House is owned and operated by Leyla and Mustafa Kıralp and their son Şevki Kıralp. Architect Mustafa Kıralp and his wife live in one house. The kitchen to the restaurant is set up on the ground floor in this house. At the weekends, the restaurant offers breakfast menus and what a menu it is! It started with wanting to maintain the traditional Cypriot food culture and recipes. Due to the large number of local visitors, intrigued tourists and/or Greek Cypriots, reservations must be made to taste their amazing breakfast menu. The variety of delicious food served is vast, pastries, eggs and so on are cooked here.
There are 6 olives trees in the garden. And one of those was planted in the name of peace and union by a Greek Cypriot friend. Behind the bar is a chicken coop with chickens and birds. In the garden, there are also fruit trees and flowers with pretty names. Olives and eggs served at breakfast are all homegrown.
It has become a ritual to stroll around the garden after breakfast. Besides, Mustafa won’t allow you to walk around before breakfast because the toast will get cold. He says, “Finish your breakfast then wander around.” The flour mill, olive oil mill, stable, Turkish bath and toilet will lead you to the entrance of the other house containing a bedroom and sitting room, waiting with its doors open. This is the museum section; The Melandra Culture House…
Melandra House, which is a typical example of Cypriot stone house architecture, is a place of traditional Cypriot Culture with its furniture and tools from the old years.
This house was originally built by Mustafa Kıralp’s father Şevki Kıralp in 1922 in the village of Paphos in Melandra. Şevki Kıralp was counted as Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot in 1974 and had to leave her house and village.
Mustafa Kıralp used his architectural expertise here and created a replica of their old house in Paphos. The village was called Melandra. This is where the house gets its name. Yearning for the old days made him create this. The Greek Cypriots get emotional here as well as it also reminds them of their old homes. The ones they had to leave behind. The rooms on the ground floor of this house have been decorated and furnished with furniture from this era. When you walk around the old furniture brings back memories of old Cyprus.
This house also has a first floor, which has been divided, into four rooms serving as standard hotel rooms. After breakfast you have seen the museum and the rooms and decide to spend more time here, watch the sun set or listen to the waves of the sea at dawn. You are welcome to stay. Many guests come from the Greek side to stay at the weekends.
Mustafa Kıralp, Melandra Culture House and Cyprus’s common culture and village life aimed to introduce the new generation. Melandra Culture House, cultural tourism event, Cyprus Culture is open to everyone interested in visiting. Here, daily use tools, furniture and traditional Cypriot food of the pre-1950 Cypriot village life are displayed.
An important event was organized here last month, The Cittaslow International Committee was here in North Cyprus and decided to carry out their closing ceremony at the Melandra House. Yeniboğaziçi, Lefke, Tatlısu and other Cittaslow Municipality mayors were also present and tasted many delicious dishes from the Turkish Cypriot Cuisine.
written by Propertync Media
date : 05/03/2024 hour : 11:55 AM
