Turkish houses usually have a simple exterior look without many decorations. On the outside can be found tall and narrow windows, along with wide eaves and bay windows. The entry from the street, via a large gate, usually leads to a courtyard surrounded by high walls. The courtyard is where daily chores are carried out. …
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Churches and structures inside the Goreme Open Air Museum
Today, Goreme Open Air Museum is one of the most popular visiting sites in Cappadocia. It is useful to know that a Cappadocia tour without visiting the museum will be seriously incomplete. The open air museum is on the crossroad to Ortahisar around 1 km outside of Goreme. Here, structures combined to form a group …
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Avanos places to visit
Clay Ateliers As if the famous saying “Even a blind knows the way of Avanos, it is evident by clay and pot fractures on the ground” is a nice summary of how the pottery in Avanos is deep-rooted. If there is one thing comes to mind first when one says Avanos, is the clay ateliers …
Kaymakli Underground City
The underground cities, which enable us to understand more what fear force people to do, bring today the blues of the people who did not want to be killed or turned into slaves. Kaymakli Underground City make us feel this blues deeply through its each floor. Kaymakli borough is situated on 20th km of Nevsehir-Nigde …
The first inhabitants of Cappadocia during the Stone Age
The reason of Cappadocia’s importance is not only the natural formations. Rocks formed by tufa stone can easily worked up. Because of that they call attention of people. Archeological findings showed that Cappadocia is the settlement place from prehistoric period up to today. The foundlings from Paleolithic Age in Cappadocia prehistoria major on Neolithic Age …
Okumaya devam et “The first inhabitants of Cappadocia during the Stone Age”
The bases of the name Cappadocia
Persians, who came from the high plateaus of Iran, obtained Greece cities one by one in the period of classical age of Greece colonialism in Anatolia and they achieved to establish a big Persian Kingdom in Anatolia. It is coincided with the name of Cappadocia firstly in Persian inscription from this period. There is a …
Cappadocia Divine tableau in natural canvas
Sixty-five years ago two big old continents gradually approached each other which were in north and south in the middle of the period which will be named as Third Period later by the geologists and clash was inevitable at the end. After this clash Anatolia, which is between of the two continents, started to closely …
Okumaya devam et “Cappadocia Divine tableau in natural canvas”
Transport to Cappadocia
It is easy to get to Cappadocia by land from anywhere in Turkey. There are regular bus services from several cities to Nev§ehir, Aksaray, Kayseri, and Nigde. The region has two airports: the first, Nevsehir-Cappadocia Tuzkoy Airport, is 30 km from Nevsehir, while the other, Kayseri Airport, is 100 km from Nev§ehir. Turkish Airlines (THY) …
How to tour in Cappadocia ?
How to tour in Cappadocia ? First of all I need to mention that, there is no specific season for visiting Cappadocia. Shortly, you may come to visit Cappadocia for four season. It is not that hard to become one of the members of the privileged groups, realize that in here there is various taste …