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Abandoned ghost town once dubbed 'millionaires playground' reopens to tourists

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An bandoned ghost town once dubbed a 'millionaires playground' has controversially reopened to tourists. Allowed to decay for decades, the former idyllic resort of Varosha in Northern Cyprus has seen beach-goers return for the first time in almost 50 years.

The district, in the city of Famagusta, boasted 12,000 hotel rooms and luscious beaches - and was described as a millionaire's playground.

Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren were among the glamorous A-listers who enjoyed breaks there. But that all changed when Cyprus was invaded by Turkey in 1974, forcing more than 40,000 residents to flee.

Since then Varosha laid empty, its buildings decaying and the public forbidden to enter as it acts as a no-man's-land between Greek and Turkish

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