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Ayia Napa
Ayia Napa has achieved notoriety as the Levantine answer
to Ibiza and continues to be the favoured resort of those coming to
Cyprus in pursuit of the traditional package holiday pleasures of sun,
sea and sex (all washed down with copious quantities of lager). It has
also attracted the attentions of a more discerning urban clientele,
drawn to the resort by its status as the garage music Mecca of the Mediterranean
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Ayia Napa's rise to fame has been swift and sudden.
It began life as a small fishing village and consequently there is little
of historic interest in the town today (except a monastery marooned
in the sea of bars and nightclubs that constitutes the 'old town').
Development began in earnest in the 1980's when an enterprising local
Cypriot businessman started inviting UK garage promoters over to hold
club nights on the island. The rest, as they say, is history .
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