Edens of Turkey

Goreme is a place in Cappadocia, in the province of Nevsehir in Turkey. The place was called into the Byzantine period Matiana, then Avcılar until it in the 1980s for tourism in Goreme, originally a term for the area of the nearby cave churches, has been renamed.

The town is the centre of the National Park Goreme, which together with other rock monuments of Cappadocia since 1985 on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Influenced by the landscape Göreme by striking tufa formations, which are partially eroded, the so-called fairy chimneys (Sheet fairychimney, Turkish peri bacaları) for which this region mainly tourists is known.

Emergence
Tuff rock hardness of various forms the basis for this landscape: volcanic eruptions and rivers formed in the course of several million years, the typical structure so that we know today.

The early Christians used it to a secluded andächtiges life to be able to lead, but primarily as a hiding place before their enemies (Persians, Romans, Arabs, Mongols …). They not only churches and chapels, which were worked into the rock, but all residential installations for several thousand people: To some up to 10 storeys deep, allowing facilities such as kitchens, warehouses, sleeping rooms and even animal stables and mortuaries, including ventilation shafts reasonably comfortable living conditions.

Another advantage was that living in tuff rock about the weather: In the summer keeps it cool, cool in winter is not so strong. The courses were appropriate, with large stones mühlsteinartigen obstructed. Man suspected of up to 100 plants, which are also connected. “Derinkuyu” is the largest of the tourist facilities and housed at around 10,000 people.