Website visitor Philip Clarke, a fan of the series and frequent visitor to Cyprus, has done an excellent job tracking down and photographing the Cyprus locations used in the filming of the series. Philip has also plotted the principal sites on a map of the island. Click the map alongside for a larger version as a PDF file.
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Philip says: "The whole thing involved some miles driven and some leg work but it was fun.
You will recognise straight away the Curium Palace Hotel. I have included some pics of the main building the bar and pool area. There have been some changes made e.g behind the bar."
ROAD ALONGSIDE CURIUM PALACE
"... the road by the side of the hotel where Helene picked up Collier in her Alfa."
"... the police station in Kouklia village. This building has not been altered at all I don't think and still has green wooden doors, the ones Collier banged on at the crack of dawn one morning. The building is surrounded by a wire fence which makes it hard to get a good angle for a good picture. "
"... the Efraim taverna in kouklia village square. The owner's daughter told me this was then the village coffee shop and filming was done outside. So this could have been where inspector Dimas insisted that before he did anything else he wanted his morning cup of coffee. It is certainly a nice place to sit and have a cold beer."
"... the bridge at Trimiklini on the way to Troodos, if I have got the right one. It was a devil to find you can not see it from the road it is completely overgrown and obscured by trees. The width of the bridge seems about right. The walls at the top of the bridge come to a point and the arches beneath the bridge are also pointed at the top not sure about the length of the bridge though. Again it is very hard to get a good angle to get a good shot. "
"Now these are the ones I had high hopes for ... what was Barry Collier's house in Paphos old town or Pano Paphos now looks like."
"If you take the main road from Paphos harbour up to Paphos old town near the top of the hill on the right is the main post office. To the left of this building is a street if you walk up this street Collier's house is on the right about half way up and at the end of the street facing you is the front of Ayios Kendeas church.
This is definitely the house - the front of the building has been bricked up so you cannot see the steps, balcony or doorway anymore. The house is now an architect's office. The steps inside would have been exterior steps before.
The bottom steps that once curved round to join the pavement have been removed and new ones put in place that go straight up. At the top of the steps on the right is the arched doorway but unfortunately the ornate doors have also been removed from their hinges. I was a bit disappointed not to find the house as it was during filming although all the inside scenes would have been done in the studio I think."
"... if you stood on the balcony of Collier's house, directly opposite you would see the shoe repair shop where the old man was seen sitting on the steps. Sadly the old man died two years ago and the shop has not been used since."
"... Ayios Kendeas church very close to Barry Collier's house features in the background quite a lot."
"... this is where Helene brought Collier as part of her plan of seduction. And where Preece had his own plans for Collier"."
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE IN PAPHOS
"... A few pic`s of the amphitheatre at Courion where Hellman offered Collier a million dollars for the eyes of love sapphires."
"... Courion is also the site of the archways where the production team placed the statues of the Gods. They might even have shot both scenes on the same day to save time. It is quite a large site I am surprised they did not use more of it. You have the amphitheatre and some fine mosaics and quite a substantial Roman town. The archways form only a small part of it and are part of an early christian basilica. However they got it right when Dimas takes Collier to the airport. Paphos airport did not exist then so you would use Larnaca airport as Collier did when he arrived in Cyprus. Also the motorway did not exist so you would take the old road from Paphos to Larnaca which would take you right past the Courion site. So Dimas was right when he said 'it is on our way'. "
THE ARCHWAYS
"... the visitors centre at the Paphos mosaic site close to Paphos harbour was the building in which Morrison met his end at the hands of Martin Preece - filmed at night, (ill met by moonlight indeed)."