Abandoned Villages - Lapithiou

[Dominic]

Lapithiou is a village with a doubly troubled past. Rebuilt after the 1953 Earthquake, the prefabricated replacement was then abandoned during the later troubles. But life goes on, as we shall see...

Read the article and chat about it below...
 

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[cyprusmax47]

Thank you for the blog Dominic. Interesting how little is left from the ruins after the caterpillar did the job. It was the first trip with my new car last year to go to this place in order to find out how the car likes off-road....

This was obviously just a day or so after the demolition job....and this picture shows only 10% of it!!


As they don't understand the importance of ancient things, they destroy also ancient things, like this piece of an old millstone.


You might be right that one building still alive could have been a small castle..


Luckily you did many blogs about abandoned villages in the last 3 years to preserve at least on photos, what perhaps is gone in the near future if
communities continue to bulldoze places. I also wonder if the central Government is aware of that. Foinikas or Vretsia for example and many more are still interesting not only for tourists.

Max

[LouiseCastricum]

Interesting blog again and also thanks to Max for his pictures.

[Kili01]

I find the abandoned villages, many of them are very remote, are very sad. You can only imagine the extreme violence that was used in order to force the Turkish Cypriot (mainly) villagers to flee from their homes, land, and animals when under attack, on or before 1974.
There were so many personal tragedies. If you speak to some of them, as we have now living in the area around Kyrenia, you get a sense of what happened to them.

Dee