Gialia (Greek: Γιαλιά, Turkish: Yayla) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 11 km northeast of Polis Chrysochous.

[2] Gialia is situated in between Argaka and Agia Marina and some of the village is actually within the Paphos Forest.

This can be found on the coastal road to Agia Marina, on the beachside, just before you get to the turning for the centre of the village.

The river supplies the villages of Gialia and Agia Marina with water for Agriculture.

4 km from the center of village there is a small chapel belonging to Saint Mamas.

These ruins were first identified in 1981 by a Georgian scholar, Wachtang Djobadze of California State University.

After the agreement between both governments was declared, and following the blessing from Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, and the director of the Cyprus Department of Antiquities, the Governments commissioned an expedition to Gialia Monastery on October 5, 2006, to carry out archaeological Studies.

The material obtained through archaeological excavations – architectural details, fragments of frescoes, window-panes, a bronze cross, a silver coin, fragments of ceramic vessels – among them some glazed examples – are mainly dated from the 13th-14th century although there are also objects of the 15th-16th century.

In the 16th century the abandoned monastery was barbarously plundered, the floors were dug out in every building phase and it was then exploded.

The badly damaged monastery was restored at the beginning of the 13th century, apparently with Queen Tamar's (1184-1210) sponsorship.