Tala, Cyprus
Tala is a large suburban village 6 km north of Paphos, Cyprus. Many non-Cypriots have moved here permanently or have a summer home in Tala. Agios Neophytos Monastery is 1 km north. Is located 290m above sea level. Tala receives an average annual rainfall of about 520 millimeters; grapevines, citrus fruits, locust, olive, almond, and walnut trees, cereals, forage plants, vegetables, and a few banana trees are cultivated in the region. As far as stockbreeding is concerned, it is limited.
Tala is the ancestral village of the singer Cat Stevens. His father, Stavros Georgiou, was born here in 1900.
In his book 'Historic Cyprus', Rupert Gunnis wrote:
