Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
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.
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
- Peri Tower
History of Cappadocia
Cappadocian region is the center of the Nevşehir; unique geological formations, historical sites in the structure of values, especially in the Central District Damat Ibrahim Pasha Mosque to the other districts in the historical and touristic works not only in Turkey, the world culture of special importance as a region is rare.
Mount Erciyes and Hasan of lava eruptive “TUF” (soft rock) areas, hundreds of rock carvings from the churches, monasteries and underground cities are not prohibited in Christianity, a refuge in later years an important cultural and educational center is used as.
Nevsehir – Urgup – Avanos triangle, especially in the valley slopes in the water of the “TUF” to land as a result of abrasion between the groove itself from the fray of saving upgrades to occur, “Fairy chimney” name known this interesting yükseltileryerli and foreign tourists attracted much attention and is the symbol Kapadokyaya.
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