Huzur Ağaç (Tree of Idleness) Restaurant

Cyprus


Across the road from Bellapais Abbey, the shady verandah at Huzur Ağaç is Bellapais' most famous lunch spot, with a large menu of sandwiches, kebabs and classic Cypriot favourites. Outside is the 200-year-old robinia which may (or may not) be Lawrence Durrell’s famed ‘Tree of Idleness’.


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