Travel Guide Davlos - Kaplica

Dominated by the superb Kantara castle in the Pentadactylos massif, Davlos/Kaplıca has become a tourist mecca on the northern coast of the Karpas peninsula. The village is surrounded by two beautiful bays with public and private beaches, a small harbor, campsites, restaurants and hotels, as well as vacation residence complexes. The historic village, less than a kilometer from the sea, has also changed a great deal. Populated exclusively by Greek Cypriots before 1974, it is now inhabited by Turkish settlers from the Black Sea. While the Agios Georgios church (1880) has been abandoned, the main street bears the name of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the large modern mosque is dedicated to Rauf Denktaş, the first president of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from 1976 to 2005. The name Davlos may indicate that the first inhabitants were descendants of Greeks from the ancient city of Daulis, near Delphi. The name Kaplıca ("thermal baths" in Turkish) recalls that hot springs were exploited here until the 1970s.