Varosha, Cyprus. Tourists play on the beach in front of abandoned hotels at Varosha, Famagusta, now part of Turkish occupied Northern Cyprus, (TRNC).

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Varosha is an abandoned southern quarter of the Cypriot city of Famagusta. Before 1974, it was the modern tourist area of the city. Its inhabitants fled during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, when the city of Famagusta came under Turkish control, and it has remained abandoned ever since

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Location: Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus.
Photo credit: © Ian Rutherford / Alamy / Afripics
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