This lovely church and monastery, most of its parts dating from the 12th to 15th centuries, occupies a scenic promontory of the ‘Five Fingers Mountains’ range in north Cyprus. It gets its name from a wormwood bush (from whence the liquor absinthe is derived) that covered a cave in which dwelt a miraculous image of the virgin Mary. Like many places that I visited in the spring of 2006, I had the whole place to myself, and had to do some serious hiking to get there. But it was always worth it.