Rush Is On Near Cyprus Ghost Town ; Over the Border From War-Ravaged Famagusta, Britons - Including a Football Legend - Are Leading a Buying Spree for New Properties

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From a distance, Famagusta on Cyprus's east coast looms like a mini Manhattan, its beachfront strip of about 70 tower blocks flanked by a twomile stretch of golden sand and azure water, considered one of the best beaches in the Mediterranean.

But from a distance is the only way anyone, apart from the occasional patrolling UN guard, can see Varosha, on the northern side of the border, which has sat empty since Turkey invaded Cyprus in August 1974 and left the city of Famagusta divided.

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Rush Is On Near Cyprus Ghost Town ; Over the Border From War-Ravaged Famagusta, Britons - Including a Football Legend - Are Leading a Buying Spree for New Properties

Overnight, some 40,000 inhabitants fled their homes, and this eerily abandoned side of the city has remained untouched, building cranes still hovering above unfinished seafront hotels. 'Famagusta was the most glamorous, most developed city in Cyprus in the late Sixties. Its streets were a...

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