CAPPADOCIA 


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Lunar landscape 

 

Rock formations in Devrent valley

 

Zelve Open Air Museum with its troglodyte houses

 

Paþabað "fairy chimneys" rock formations

 

Avanos, centre of terracotta art work since 3000 BC

 

Göreme Open Air Museum, the best examples of Byzantine art in Cappadocia in rock-cut churches with frescoes and paintings from the 10th to 13th centuries

 

Climb up the Uçhisar Rock-Castle for a panoramic view

Kaymakli, one of the deepest of 40 underground cities

 

Ihlara Canyon Valley

 

Caravansary of Agzikarahan, a very fine example of Seljuk art, built in early 13th century on the legendary Silk Road for the accommodation of the traders and their camels.

 

Gamirasu is the name of an exquisitely restored eleven-room cave house, in Ayvali Village near Ürgüp in the heart of Cappadocia.  Now it is luxury accommodation.


Page last updated 18 August 2002