The district of Varosha (Kapalı Maraş) in Famagusta (Cyprus) was between 1970 and 1974 one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Its Greek Cypriot inhabitants fled during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, when the city of Famagusta came under Turkish control. It has remained abandoned ever since and the buildings have decayed. Most of Varosha’s original inhabitants (and their direct descendants) now live south of Cyprus's UN buffer zone. Those families are still the legal owners of property in Varosha, but while the town is fought over, they cannot reclaim it. Plus, many

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Location: Leophoros John F. Kennedy, Famagusta, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)
Photo credit: © Georg Berg / Alamy / Afripics
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