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 Pigadhes is halfway along the road
from Kyrenia to Güzelyurt,
near the village of Çamlibel. The double-horned altar of the Bronze Age
sanctuary has an irresistible facination for those interested in mythology and
ancient history. For others Pigadhes is a tranquil picnic site, sympathetically
planted with cypress and cedar trees. The sanctuary's 12 feet high altar is
raised on four steep steps capped with the Horns of Consecration.
The exterior face of the altar
platform is decorated with precise geometrical carving of four squares
surrounding a cross. It now stands, as it did in the Late Bronze Age, in the
open air, but it would then have been enclosed within a courtyard containing a
sacred well.
The low foundation walls of the
various out-buildings range all around. These sacred precints would also have
probably been surrounded by woodland, thus closing all horizons save for the
divine summits of Mount Olympus and the twin peaks of the Gothic [Kyrenia]
Range.
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