Mavi Köşk.

What to see at Mavi Köşk

• Mavi Köşk, the Blue Mansion, is a villa of the 1950s designed with hidden rooms and passages.
• It stands furnished as it was found in the 1970s.
• Soldiers guide visitors through the rooms.

History of Mavi Köşk

1950s

The Blue Mansion is built above Çamlıbel as a villa with hidden rooms and passages.

1974

The villa is left furnished as it stands. It is kept as it was left that year, under the care of the Turkish armed forces.

Visiting Mavi Köşk

Allow half an hour. The mansion is near Çamlıbel, about 9.6 km west of Lapta, inside a military area, with soldiers guiding visitors. The D.15 road passes about 650 m away and a car park is mapped about 50 m away.

Monuments near Mavi Köşk

• St Mamas Monasteryabout 15 km south-westChurch on a temple of Astarte, with a carved 16th-century iconostasis.
• Güzelyurt Railway Museumabout 15 km southThe Cyprus Government Railway station that carried citrus to Gazimağusa from 1907.
• Peace and Freedom Museumabout 16 km eastThe Peace and Freedom Museum, in the house where three soldiers fell in 1974.