Famagusta

Famagusta, known in Turkish as Gazimagusa, is a walled city on the eastern coast of Cyprus within the Turkish Cypriot area, enclosed by massive Venetian fortifications considered among the best-preserved medieval walls in the Mediterranean. Within the walls stands the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, a French Gothic structure of the fourteenth century converted to the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque after the Ottoman conquest of 1571, its facade strongly reminiscent of Reims Cathedral. The abandoned resort suburb of Varosha, sealed off since 1974 and recently partially reopened, has become a significant Cold War-era historical landmark.