 Agia Anna is a small beautiful village encircled from low mountains
built in the valley of river "Tremithos", 16 kilometers
west of Larnaca. It is built in altitude 150 m above the sea, on limestone
rocks. It is found in the old street Nicosia -Larnaca and neighbors
with the villages Psevdas and Kalo Chorio Larnacas.
The village took its name from the Saint Anna. However exist various
versions for how it took its name. Certain of them are reported below:
The village took his name from the Agia Anna, the mother of Virgin
Mary, who according to tradition was seen from the residents of the
village, drinking water from one of the water sources of the village.
 One other version reports that near in Stavrovouni existed a village,
the village of Honest Cross. In this village existed a monastery dedicated
in Agia Anna. In this monastery it was looked after, as it is also
said palm of Agia Anna. Later this village was lost and the village
Agia Anna took its place.
A third version reports that a shepherd while praying he envisioned
the Agia Anna, who asked him to build a church and to name the village
Agia Anna.
According to researches that have become, it was realized that the
settlement of Agia Anna was created in the dues of the 18th century
and the beginning of the 19th century.
Exist clues, from discoveries that became after excavations, that
the region of Agia Anna was lived form the ancient years and concretely
by the Neolithic season.
An important proof of this is the existence of catacombs in southern
area of the old church of Agia Anna. In this region exist still certain
from them as well as the ruins of ancient settlement. In the region
were found still ancient vessels, which are found today in the archaeological
museum.
 The population of village before the Turkish invasion was mixed. Greekcypriots
and Turkishcypriots constituted it. In the 1960 the total number of
residents reached the 182 individuals, from that 80 were Greekcypriots
and 102 Turkishcypriots. Afterwards the Turkish invasions in Agia
Anna there are only Greekcypriots, many from which they are refugees.
The last years it began to have a small increase of the population
of the community and today the population reaches around the 300 individuals.
The residents of village deal mainly with the agriculture and the
livestock farming. Some of them are builders, or workers while some
others are electricians etc and they are working at the province of
Nicosia and Larnaca.
 The bigger number of residents is assembled in the houses with traditional
character. Today the growth of the village is spread in all directions,
at some distance from the center of the village beyond the river which
up to recently constituted a natural obstacle in the extension of
the village.
The growth surely did not leave the traditional character unaffected,
where the interventions with new buildings, are increased worryingly.
The main characteristics of the traditional character of settlement
are found below:
Possessed layout
The stoneworks are from limestone from the region
The roofs are at an angle covered with tiles
The architectural drawings of the buildings are frugal
Main characteristic are the three small squares of the settlement,
with more important the one that is found in the square where only
Turkishcypriots lived. There it exists up to today the school where
the children of Turkishcypriots were studying.
A basic characteristic of the residents of the village is their deeply
religious faith, thing that is proved by the existence of three churches,
and two dedicated in Agia Anna and a third that is dedicated in the
Virgin Mary.
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