Varosha, Famagusta, Cyprus
ABBA played their first concert here, while on holiday in 1970 before they were officially a band. They are said to have rehearsed in one of the rental apartment blocks in the town, Twiga towers.
The hotel was owned by the late Costas Tsimon, who was also a former mayor who had moved to Cyprus from Africa. Twiga means giraffe in Swahili and was used to describe the hotel, which was narrow and high like a giraffe’s neck.
The once-glittering Mediterranean seaside town, a southern suburb of the eastern city of Famagusta, has been fenced off and abandoned since Turkey invaded Cyprus five days after a Greek-inspired coup on July 15, 1974.
Twiga towers today, among other buildings in Varosha, decrepit, with flaking paint
Sources
https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/04/05/fifty-years-since-abba-came-to-play-in-varosha/
