Once Cyprus's premier beach resort, the abandoned hotels and villas of Varosha stand testament to dashed hopes of reclaiming lost property after five decades of division and failed diplomacy.
Once the jewel of Cypriot celebrity tourism, Famagusta's resort district of Varosha was the place to be. In the early 1970s ...
A wire fence on a Cypriot beach is all that separates Pavlos Iacovou from the hotel he owns but has not visited in decades -- now a sudden decision from Ankara could change all that. The tourist ...
*Updated August 22, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. This summer, many parts of the world are on on track to see record tourist numbers. Yet amid the over-tourism, it’s hard to imagine that all over the world there ...
An explorer has opened the doors to an abandoned resort that has been left empty for the past 13 years—becoming a lawless ghost town that is now overrun with graffiti and garbage. Josh, who goes by ...
Traveling solo, especially as a woman, can be nerve-racking enough. But imagine accidentally stumbling across entire abandoned resort towns while exploring alone in foreign countries. That’s when the ...
NICOSIA, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Cyprus on Tuesday harshly criticised plans by a Turkish Cypriot politician to re-open parts of an abandoned holiday resort to the public, saying it ran contrary to ...
Once Cyprus's premier beach resort, the abandoned hotels and villas of Varosha stand testament to dashed hopes of reclaiming lost property after five decades of division and failed diplomacy. Situated ...