Villagers work in small orchards in the surrounding valleys, tending walnut, apple, pear, peach and other fruit-bearing trees.

The local hero of the village is Stylianos Lenas, who died in battle against the British colonial rulers during the 1955-1959 resistance.

A considerable number of the village's men who took part were members of EOKA, the anti-colonial organisation, which fought for the expulsion of British troops from the island.

According to Ieronymos Peristianis, and to the testimonies of older members of the village, a communal school operated in a room of the church during the Turkish occupation of Cyprus.

The Chandria climate is refreshingly cool in summer and very cold in winter, with a fair amount of rain and snow.

There is a great interest in petrologic and structural constraints on the origin of foliated gabbro near Chandria, on the Troodos Ophiolite.