Conference Venue, Amathus Beach Hotel
The Amathus Beach Hotel is a leading five-star hotel with excellent customer service standards based on uncompromising quality, reliability and professionalism.  The Amathus legend has been built on stunning architecture and design, outstanding facilities, luxuries such as tranquility, space and privacy, and the consistent delivery of excellent standards of service.  In 1986 the Amathus Beach Hotel became the first hotel on the island to be admitted to the prestigious organization “The Leading Hotels of the World”, membership of which is granted only to hotels meeting the very highest standards of achievement in all aspects of services and quality.  At the Amathus Beach Hotel you will enjoy deluxe accommodation, a top-class range of fitness, sport and leisure facilities, fabulous restaurants with superlative cuisine, sumptuous and perfectly appointed surroundings including 200 meters of sea frontage, 4000 square meters of immaculate lawns and gardens plus uncompromisingly efficient personal service.

Distances from the Amahtus Beach Hotel
Beach: on the beach
City Centre: 9 km - 6 miles or 10 minutes by car
Larnaka Airport - Town: 58 km - 36 miles or 40 minutes by car
Pafos Airport: 69 km - 43 miles or 40 minutes by car
Pafos Town: 75 km - 47 miles or 45 minutes by car
Limassol Harbour: 19 km - 12 miles or 20 minutes by car
Nicosia Town: 69 km - 43 miles or 45 minutes by car
Troodos Mountain: 57 km - 36 miles or 50 minutes by car
Curium Theatre: 27 km - 17 miles or 30 minutes by car
Kolossi Castle: 22 km - 14 miles or 25 minutes by car
Aphrodite Hills Golf Course: 47 km - 29 miles or 35 minutes by car

Limassol City (Lemesos)
Limassol (Lemesos, in Greek) is situated between the ancient towns of Amathus and Curium. Amathus, the actual location of the Symposium, was populated at least 3000 years ago. The settlement took its name from Amathusa, the mother of King Kinyras from Paphos. Over centuries, it became a rich kingdom with a port, constructed around 800 BC, serving the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines. A temple, high on a near-by cliff, became a special site of worship to Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love. In the Roman Era, Amathus became the capital of one out of Rome’s four administrative regions. Later, in the 4th century AD, it became the Episcopal See and continued to flourish until the Byzantine Period.
In 1191, the English King Richard the Lionheart, en-route to the Holy Land, destroyed Amathus and put an end to the Byzantine dominion of Cyprus. Lemesos is assumed to have been established by Amathus’ refugees. In 1192 AD, Cyprus was sold to the Templars, rich monks and soldiers whose aim was the protection of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Following a revolt, because of high taxation, Cyprus was sold to Guy de Lusignan, a Frank and Roman Catholic. Cyprus was thus handed over to the Frankish Dynasty of the Lusignan who ruled the medieval Cypriot kingdom.
For a period of about three centuries, 1192-1489, Lemesos enjoyed aperiod of increasing prosperity, became, through its harbour, a centre of transportation and commerce, and this contributed greatly to the financial and cultural development of the region. Cyprus was sold in1489 AD. to the town of Venice by the Cypriot Queen Catherine Cornaro. The Venetianswere not interested in Cyprus. They were only interested in receiving the taxes and in exploiting the country’s sources. They destroyed the Castle of Lemesos in1539, and Cyprus entered a long period of decline and poverty, worsened when the Turks invaded Cyprus and occupied Lemesos (Limassol) in July 1570.
The British took over in Cyprus in 1878, and this marked the start a period of revival, leading up to modern Limassol, which grew in size to 43000 inhabitants in 1960, 80% of Greek and 20% of Turkish origin. Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, most of the Turkish Cypriots left Limassol and settled in the Turkish North, while many Geek Cypriots from the North settled in Limassol.   Limassol is now the second biggest city in Cyprus and its biggest Municipality.