One such place is a city in the country of Cyprus known as Varosha. This city was once a vibrant and thriving tourist hotspot ...

Located in the north of Cyprus in Famagusta ... However, the resort was fenced off by the Turkish military and has been a ghost town ever since. A United Nations resolution of 1984 calls for ...

The Turkish military had invaded Famagusta, on the eastern coast of Cyprus. Within the city lay Varosha, a 2.3-square-mile, wealthy seaside community that was home to 39,000 people, mostly Greek ...

It’s safe to say though, that with the possible exception of Varosha, Cyprus, the rest of the towns and cities on our list are true ghost towns, and likely to remain that way. Start by taking a ...

Varosha in Cyprus was once popular with Hollywood royalty ... According to figures released on June 3, the ghost town has drawn more than 1.8 million tourists over the past four years.

This southern Italian village was completely abandoned after landslides and earthquakes forced residents to leave, but the ...

Underlining that Gazimagusa wanted Maras, often described as a "ghost town" to become ... inventory surveys in the town, which began the following month. Cyprus has been divided into the TRNC ...

But after 1974, everyone but the Turkish military was forbidden from entering, and today, buildings in the once-booming resort town are crumbling and abandoned. According to the BBC, after years of ...

Since then, it has remained frozen in time. Today, it is a ghost town; a monument to what was. In July 1974, following a coup in Cyprus by pro-Greek forces seeking union with Greece, Turkey ...

leaving the former resort town to become a ghost town. Even today, the neighbourhood remains untouched under the control of Northern Cyprus. The TikTok video displays this dark reality ...