The Monument of the Liberation Struggle of EOKA 1955-59

THE STAIRS TO FREEDOM After the Hall of Fighters, visitors may proceed to the footpath that leads to the plateau on the summit. It is a holy place. Lying ahead is the first flight of the 108 stairs, as many as the fight- ers who fell in the battlefield or in carrying out orders. Each step is dedicated to a par- ticular hero with his name and date of sacrifice inscribed on an in-built marble plate. As the visitor climbs up the flights of stairs he follows an uplifting course that takes him higher and higher, both literally and metaphorically. The last stair takes him to the highest point in his ascent, which is the plateau at the top where the Monument to Freedom and the Chapel of Panagia Eleftherotria are locat- ed.