Lefke

Cittaslow Lefke

Cittaslow Lefke is a region in Northern Cyprus famous for its historical and natural beauties, embracing a tranquil lifestyle, and having received the international "Slow City" title.

Lefke aims to offer a peaceful life by preserving its local identity against globalization, with its historical mansions, clean air, orange groves, and coastline, and develops projects in this direction.

Purpose: To preserve the uniqueness of cities and to stand against the uniformity brought about by modernization/globalization.

Applications: Lefke Municipality, in accordance with the Cittaslow philosophy, has canceled nightclub permits and opened the coastline for walking and cycling. It carries out projects such as organizing roads.

NATURE

Lefke, one of the greenest places on the island, is a quiet and peaceful place with its orange groves, cultural mosaic, and many historical sites. In the Lefke region, you can listen to the sound of silence while sitting in the shade and watching the turquoise sea.

Lefke has attracted attention in every period of history with its all shades of green and blue, historical artifacts that bear witness to the periods of past civilizations, walnut (approximately 1500) and date palm trees (2000), Jaffa oranges, the most delicious oranges of Cyprus, and picturesque landscapes.

Lefke has a unique beauty with its clean air, peaceful environment, proximity to rich copper mine deposits, history, culture and natural values. Lefke is undoubtedly the most magnificent region of the island of Cyprus.

HISTORY

Numerous historical sites, witnesses to the cultural and historical heritage located in Lefke, give Lefke the characteristic of a historical town.

In particular, the richness created by the Venetian, Ottoman, and British period architectural structures located within the town of Lefke is extremely impressive and worth seeing.

ECONOMY

Lefke's economy has developed based on agriculture (citrus fruits, olives, dates, carob) and tourism (natural beauties) after its historical mining.

"There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting."

- MILAN KUNDERA -