A view of Famagusta Beach pre-1974
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Famagusta Viewpoint
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When:
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Daily
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Where:
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Famagusta Viewpoint
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Free
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9am-6.30pm
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Famagusta Viewpoint is particularly for those curious about the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. On the first floor, there are telescopes and binoculars allowing you to see the ghost town of Famagusta, once home to 60,000 people.
Where the major port of Cyprus once bustled, cows walk nonchalantly across grass-covered tarmac roads, the Romanesque cathedral built by the Lusignan kings in the 13th century stands silent and thousands of hotel rooms in what was once Cyprus' largest international resort sit unused and decaying.
It is an eerie experience to view all this through a pair of binoculars, but a tragedy for those whose families were left behind in the Turkish invasion and who subsequently went missing, as well as for all the residents of Famagusta who have lost their homes, all their possessions and their family records.
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