There's an abandoned airport within the Cyprus buffer zone (Google Maps). I've seen pictures of the airport online, but how can I visit this airport and is it safe to do so?
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No, you cannot, it's protected by the UN and off-limits to all.
The UNPA [United Nations Protected Area] included the whole of the airport complex, including the premises of RAF Nicosia and the UN camps.
Neither side was to approach within 500 metres of this perimeter. When ceasefire lines were drawn on 16 August 1974, the area declared as a United Nations Protected Area (UNPA) was included within the buffer zone.
In keeping with UNFICYP’s mandate to maintain the status quo, the airport has remained a United Nations Protected Area since 1974.
UNFICYP regulates access, but tourism of any kind is not on the agenda:
Contact UNFICYP’s Civil Affairs Section for any inquiries on Farming, Construction and Access in the buffer zone, as well as on Bi-Communal, Humanitarian and Religious issues. Any request which does not fall under the above categories will not be responded to.
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There is a virtual tour available: Nicosia International Airport Virtual Tour
It is created to digitally preserve this historic site:
The World Heritage Convention, drawn up by various international bodies in 1972, was designed to protect cultural or natural places of outstanding universal value so that future generations may be able to enjoy them. According to those principles the NIC Project, named after the old IATA code for the International Airport of Nicosia, represents an industrial archaeology multidisciplinary project led by the STARC of the Cyprus Institute (www.cyi.ac.cy) , which aims to preserve and promote digitally one of the main iconic sites of the recent history of Cyprus.
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