You can taste some of the finest examples of Turkish cuisine here. Hi I’m Rebecca Brayton and welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we’re continuing our travel series with the look at the region in Turkey called Cappadopia.
Cappadopia is a famous and popular tourist destination as it has many areas with unique Geological, historic and cultural features. Cappadopia is generally regarded as the plains and the mountains region of Eastern Central and Anatolia around the upper and middle riches of the Red River. It was here that several ancient highways crossed in different cultures came into contact with each other. There are many messy places in Cappadopia. For example Fairy Chimney’s, Gourmet Valley National Park and the rock fortresses.
Cappadopia is in the middle of a one’s active volcanic region over many millions of year’s volcanoes, wind, rain and ice sculpted what we know now as Cappadopia. As the land eroded the stones were made and formed chronicle structures sometimes reaching as high as a 145 feet.
Today we see hundreds of spectacular pillars and many wet life forms. The volcanic deposits are soft rocks at the people of the villages at the heart of the region carved out to form houses, churches and monasteries.
The local people called these unique rock formations bury chimneys and name that has year throughout the ages. Visitors can see the chimneys from a hot air balloon by walking, horse riding or biking around the valleys. Although referred to as cities the underground cave communities of Cappadopia probably served more as temporary shelters rather than as permanent hidden cities. This Greek entrances give way to elaborates subterranean systems with air chefs, waste chefs, wells, chimneys and connecting passage ways.
The upper levels were used for living quarters while on lower levels were used for storage wine making flour grinding and worship in simple chapels. The gourmet open air museum is the most visited site of the monastic communities in Cappadopia and is one of the most famous sites in Central Turkey.
It is a complex comprising more than 30 rock carved Churches and chapels containing some superb fresco dating from the 9th to 11th centuries. These cave frescos are evidence of the fact that the Cappadopia was one of the earliest areas of Christian activity.
Every civilization has its distinct type of pottery so the archeologist say in Cappadopia is far from the exception. The soil and cave the region are exceptional and have encouraged potters from ancient to modern times. Several establishments that specialize in contemporary pottery welcome visitors today not only to display several wares but to demonstrate how they’re made.
The finest Turkish carpets are made in Cappadopia and there so to said the best bargains can be found.
There are made in much the same way that they were made in Marco Polo’s time and of the same materials, wool, cotton and silk.
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