The area is a famous and popular tourist destination, as it has many areas with unique geological, historic and cultural features.

The region is southwest of the major city Kayseri, which has airline and railroad (railway) service to Ankara and Istanbul.

The Cappadocia region is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago (late Miocene to Pliocene epochs). The rocks of Cappadocia near Göreme eroded into hundreds of spectacular pillars and minaret-like forms. The volcanic deposits are soft rocks that the people of the villages at the heart of the Cappadocia Region carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries. Göreme became a monastic center between 300—1200 AD. First period settlement in Göreme reaches to the Roman period from Christianity. Yusuf Koç, Ortahane, Durmus Kadir and Bezirhane churches in Göreme, houses and churches carved into rocks till to Uzundere, Bağıldere and Zemi Valley carries the mystical side of history today. The Göreme Open Air Museum is the most visited site of the monastic communities in Cappadocia and is one of the most famous sites in central Turkey. It is a complex comprising more than 30 rock-carved churches and chapels containing some superb frescoes, dating from the 9th to the 11th centuries.

Goreme

Göreme Open Air Museum

Nevşehir to 12 miles away. Avanos, Urgup and Goreme town located within the triangle of Nevşehir 2 miles east of the settlement is in the rocks. After the first layout region Milada 53rd also starts.
Göreme Open Air Museum are the most important rock churches; Elmali Church, St. Basil’s Church, Barbara Church, Yılanlı Church, Karanlık Church, Church Çarıklı. Moreover, a society’s museum in the crowd to meet the daily requirements for the pantry, kitchen, dining hall, girls and boys can be seen are places monastery. Meryem Ana Church, the church reserved, Tokalı Church, El Nazar Church is worth seeing are the church.