Goreme Open Air Museum

My flight is not until the evening, so set the morning aside for the Goreme Museum. This UNESCO site is the most popular tourist destination in Cappadocia and to me is one of the highlights of the trip with a large number of churches, chapels and monasteries carved out of the cliffs that have many lovely and well preserved frescoes from about a thousand years ago.

This region had early Christian settlements from the 2nd century then in the 3rd century became popular for the establishment of monasteries. These grew as did the population of Christians fleeing Roman then Muslim persecution. Many of the churches carved into the stone have frescoes. Most seem to date from the 11th century.Weiterlesen