The Nicosia International Festival is a festival where yesterday meets today and they go together to tomorrow. A festival featuring theatre, music and contemporary dance. The 20 and more performances compose a mosaic where contemporary and classical, Rebetiko and music of the world along with Cypriot creators and world-class artists coexist.

The logos of the city festival have as a reference point, a landmark of the city. The most powerful landmark of Nicosia is the Venetian walls that surround the old town.  In order to be able to include such a trivial symbol we decided that it would be better to deconstruct it and recreate it by adding new elements.

The routes, within the old town, in the cobbled streets of yesterday, the people inside houses with walls made of the traditional porous stone “pouropetra”, small cafes and trendy shops, the new town hall built above ancient finds, create strong connections between the old and the New and they all coexist in a very interesting mosaic. People, actions and buildings balance harmoniously without trying to impose each other.

Those elements inspired us to proceed and recreate the Nicosia Walls where they were rather implied and not clearly seen by the spectator.