Troodos has appeared 90 - 100 million years ago - at that time the mountain ridge has risen above a surface of water, and later millions years around of volcanic breed was formed the island of present outlines.
Feature of a geological structure, and also inaccessibility of these places for numerous "subjugators" of the nature also became the reason of that about 70 kinds of unique plants grow only here - and they do not grow in any other countries of the world. It assist also climate, which in Troodos is more damp, than at coast - mountains are a natural barrier to clouds, the quantity of precipitations here is more in approximately three times, than at coast, and average temperature of air is on 10 - 15°C below, than on plain. In hot summer months thousand of inhabitants leave their cozy cyprus villas and offices and come in Troodos, to refuge in shadow of its majestic pines from heat reigning in the cities.