Discover the two faces of Cyprus

Cyprus is an island state divided in two, between Greece (to the south) and Turkey (to the north). A clear division, delimited by borders, which in recent years has meant a different economic and cultural development. And, of course, tourism. To the south there is highly developed tourism, hotels with well-organized restaurants, premises and ports for boats in the most characteristic ones. The most popular, Limassol, Paphos, Ayia Napa, Kyrenia, the beach of Fig Tree Bay. This area of ​​the island is very popular with Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tourists, but also with many Italians who spend their summer holidays on these shores.

In the north, however, time seems to have stopped. Here, the island has stayed truer to its roots and has been newly developed over the years. Even from a tourist point of view. The beaches of Famagusta, as wide as Rio de Janeiro but like an untouched Maldives atoll, or Rizokarpaso, the location on the far east of Cyprus, are already accessible, but they don’t offer much for accommodation. Those who spend their holidays in Cyprus usually come to these beaches for a day trip, but then return to the more touristy and fun ones. Some patios are already beginning to be developed and, on the Internet, there are advertisements for the sale of apartments, for those who wish to invest.

The news of the fall of the wall in Nicosia, the last remaining bastion and which symbolized the division of the two areas under the control of two different countries, does well to think of a much greater development of that part of the hidden island, virgin, wild and isolated beaches.