•Churches :
•Tokali kilise :church of the Buckle- ( Stefanwn) the largest church in Goreme. Main nave has 9th cent frescoes. panels in indigo from lapis lazuli, episodes from St Basil,s life, St Minas, the 40 martyrs
•Elmali kilise: the apple church- ( MhliaV) built 1050, 4 pillars, the last supper,
•Azize Barbara Kilisesi: St. Barbara was an Egyptian martyr, built 11th cent.fresco of st. George & St. Theodore
•Yilanli Kilise: snake church, built in the 11th cent.
•Karanlik kilise: dark church ( Skoteinh) – no light, that is why colors best preserved --frescoes are the best preserved in all of Cappadokia.
•Cankli Kilise: church of the sandals (Sandalwn) –two footprints found at the bottom of the ascension fresco
Zelva
•Monastery : (area with “fairy chimneys”) carved into the rock in pre-iconoclastic times. On the northern slopes of Aktepe, 1 km from Pasa Baglari & 10 km out from Goreme on road to Avanos.
•The Patriarch celebrated liturgy here in the year 2000.
•Does not have the rich frescoes of Goreme.
•Spread out over 3 valleys, of which 2 are connected by tunnel. Contain innumerable rooms with passages & many pointed fairy chimneys with large stems at about 40ft above the valley floor.
•Was an important settlement during the 9th – 13th cent.
•First seminaries to train priests were here
Kaymakli (Anakou)
•About 100 tunnels, still used today as cellars, stables & storage. Graves belong to religious people, 4 floors open to visitors, a remarkable block of andesite was used as a pot to melt copper. In order to be used in metallurgy 57 holes were carved into the stone. The technique was to put copper ore into each of the holes (about 10 cm in diameter) and then to hammer the ore into place. The copper was mined somewhere between Aksaray & Nevsehir. This mine was also used by Asilikhoyuk, the oldest settlement in Cappadocia.
•Direkli church
•Balikli (fish) kilise
•Uzumlu (grapes) kilise
•Geyikli (deer) kilise : totally collapsed
•The area contains a tunnel joining 2 of the valleys, a mill (without sails)
•The town of Avanos is famous for its colourful earthenware pots
•Material used is the red clay from the Kizilyrmak river – the longest river in Turkey
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