Officially known as the Victory Monument (or Zafer Anıtı in Turkish) and ‘depicting the struggle of the Turkish-Cypriots of Famagusta through the years and remaining victorious in the end’, colloquially it’s more commonly referred to simply as the Atatürk statue, as the top of the impressive sculpture is crowned by head of one Kemal Mustafa Atatürk, the founding father of the modern Turkish state, whom you'll likely recognise from the Turkish lira you've currently got in your pocket.

A more recent addition to Famagusta than most of the many centuries-old tourist sights around the city centre, this modern sculpture is nevertheless one of our personal favourites when it comes to photo ops. True story: whenever we bring guests from abroad to Famagusta, and enter from the south, we'll channel our inner Clark Griswold and do a few loops around the roundabout in which it sits in order to let them take in the slightly bizarre majesty of the monument for the first time.