21st CYPRUS RIALTO WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL - Rialto Theatre and SEK Parking area, Limassol - 8-21 July

Cyprus Mail 19 June 2026 - by Eleni Philippou

21st CYPRUS RIALTO WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL

Rialto Theatre and SEK Parking area, Limassol

8-21 July - 9pm


Free admission. www.rialto.comcy


Summer in Cyprus is about to get busier as more annual events make their comeback. In Limassol, the Rialto Theatre is working towards the realisation of a long-standing cultural institution – the Cyprus Rialto World Music Festival.

Back this July 8 to 21 for its 21st edition, the festival will fill summer evenings with musical encounters, powerful live performances and sounds from across the globe. Every night, audiences and musicians will meet at 9pm at the SEK parking area, right behind the theatre, to enjoy this year’s selected acts.

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A monument is to be built in memorial of the victims of sexual violence during and after Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the non-profit organisation Zoe vs War Violence announced on Friday, with June 19 observed by the United Nations as the international day for the elimination of sexual violence in conflict.

The monument’s planned construction was announced during an event held at the presidential palace, with cabinet having approved the plans on Wednesday, and Zoe vs War Violence having said that Nicosia mayor Charalambos Prountzos has also offered his support for it to be placed in “a central location” in the capital.

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Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), Andreas Karvounis, an officer with the ministry’s beach safety unit, described the recurring difficulty in filling the approximately 380 lifeguard positions jointly funded by the ministry and local authorities.

Asked about a proposal by local authorities to station one lifeguard instead of two at some towers in order to cover more locations, Karvounis said this could not be implemented unless it was determined that safety requirements could still be met.

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The two women were part of a group of five. They entered the sea between the breakwaters, fully clothed. A civilian, Panayiotis Gavalas, responded by inflatable boat with his six-year-old son on board, picked up another citizen en route, and left his son and the other man on the breakwaters before pulling both women out unconscious.

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Iran has begun planning to broaden its strategy to block global shipping should negotiations with the US fail, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Strait of Bab-el-Madeb, which connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, with the help of Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to CNN, who cites three anonymous sources with knowledge of the information held by the secret services.

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A passenger departs from Larnaca for Brussels and arrives at their destination four hours later than scheduled. Another is informed at the airport that his flight has been cancelled, while a family loses their connection due to a delay in the first flight.

For many, this is just an unpleasant experience. In reality, however, European law confers important rights and, in many cases, the right to financial compensation.