Galata (Greek: Γαλάτα) is a village in the Solea valley, located about 60 km west of the capital Nicosia, at an altitude of 620 m in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.

In Galata there is Panagia tis Podithou (Greek: Παναγία της Ποδίθου), church, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 along with nine other Painted Churches in the Troödos Region, because of their unique murals and testimony to the history of Byzantine rule in Cyprus.

[3] According to Greek mythology, Cyprus was the first land that Aphrodite set foot on; where Pygmalion begged her to let him be with the statue that he created in her image.

[4] According to other version village was populated with shepherds who sold milk, that is milkmens (in Greek galataes).

[4] Agia Paraskevi and Agios Georgios are small 16th century churches on road between Galata and Kakopetria.