Travel Guide Livera - Sadrazamköy

A feeling of being at the end of the world... It's on the territory of this small farming commune that lies the deserted Cape Kormakitis, the closest point to Turkey (60 km to the north), at the junction between the Kyrenia coast and Morphou Bay. A former Lusignan stronghold, Livera may have taken its Greek name from Jean d'Oliver, a nobleman from the Comtat Venaissin who was sent in 1365 as an emissary of King Charles V of France to Peter I of Cyprus. Prior to 1974, the village had a population of around 150, all Greek Cypriots, who were expelled during the invasion. It was repopulated by Black Sea Turks and renamed Sadrazamköy ("Sadrazam village") in honor of a local Turkish Cypriot family massacred during communal clashes in 1964. Bordered by two luxury housing estates and small windswept beaches, Livera/Sadrazamköy is home to a modest modern mosque and the abandoned Agios Konstantinos church, but almost no shops. Above all, it's the starting point for the "Beşparmak Trail", a 255 km-long hiking trail that crosses the entire northern zone through the Pentadactylos/Beşparmak massif to Cape St. Andrew.