Geroskipou

Geroskipou has made loukoumi, the gel-and-nut confection sold across the eastern Mediterranean under various names, since the 1890s, and several family workshops still boil, set and cut it on the premises with the process visible from the shop. The town also has the church of Agia Paraskevi, a rare five-domed Byzantine building of the ninth century with wall paintings inside, and a folk art museum in an Ottoman-era house.

What you actually see

• The loukoumi workshops - family producers boiling, setting and cutting on site.
• Agia Paraskevi - a five-domed ninth-century church with wall paintings.
• The folk art museum - tools, textiles and domestic objects in an old house.
• The main square - the working centre of a town rather than a resort.

When to go

Year round; the church and shops keep normal hours. Workshops are most interesting on weekday mornings when production is running. Summer afternoons are hot and quiet.

Honest expectations

The town is ordinary outside these few points and there is no old quarter to wander. The church closes for a long midday break. Loukoumi is sold everywhere on the island, so the appeal is watching it made.

Nearby

Paphos is three kilometres west, and the Sanctuary of Aphrodite is east along the coast.