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Goreme and Urgup

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About 90 kilometers southwest of Kayseri are the unusual towns of Ürgüp, Göreme, Avcılar, Ortahisar, and Üç Hisar with their troglodyte dwellings. Remains of early churches can be seen, complicated rooms hollowed out of the cones of volcanic ash.

Several hundred churches are in this area, some of which are decorated with scratched frescoes depicting scenes from the Bible or the Apocrypha. Many of them reflect both the architects’ familiarity with conventional Byzantine buildings and their own slavish dependence on that style: false columns and vaulting have been carved into the tuff although the rock was suitable to a more plastic form.

The intent then was to recall for the residents their associations with freestanding sanctuaries and the symbolism of the cross and the heavenly dome. For us today the columns that now hang and the arches that end in midair create also a sense of the fantastic and the lavish along with their witness to the ravages of time. The area was most highly populated during the eighth and ninth centuries though there were probably Christians living there from the first century on.

In the valley of the Melendiz Suyu between Aksaray and Ihlara there are more than twenty similar churches with paintings from the ninth to the eleventh centuries. One in Kokar Kilise, Ihlara, shows two shepherds playing instruments that look much like the ney (bamboo flute) used today in dervish religious music.

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By Zeus on June 16, 1999   /   Ancient Cities of Turkey, Biblical Sites in Turkey, Must-See Places in Turkey   /   1 Comment
Tags: cappadocia, göreme, ürgüp, Κόραμα, Προκόπιο
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  1. Mike
    12:29 pm on July 21, 2002

    Now if you’re looking to visit this region, Goreme, Turkey is a great central location and really setup well for tourists where you can sleep in your own cave, but not part of any major tunnel system. Goreme has shuttles to and from the airport.

    Warning: If you are planning on not renting a car (which you shouldn’t need to do), you need to make sure you arrange ahead of time with one of the shuttle companies, the small airport in Kayceri has no ticket desk for shuttles and the taxi ride is pretty steep comparatively.

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