Cappadocian region is the place where nature and history come
together most beautifully within the world. While geographic
events are forming Peribacaları (fairy chimneys), during the
historical period, humans had carried the signs of thousand
years old civilizations with carving houses and churches within
these earth pillars and decorating them with frisks. During the
Roman Emperor, Augustus period, territories of Cappadocian
Region as a wide region lying till to the Toros Mountains at
south, Aksaray at west, Malatya at east and Eastern Black Sea
shores at north within the 17 volume book named 'Geographika' of
Strabon, one of the Antic Period writers. Today's Cappadocian
Region is the area covered by Nevşehir, Aksaray, Niğde, Kayseri,
and Kırşehir cities. More limited area, rocky Cappadocian Region
is composed of Üçhisar, Göreme, Avanos, Ürgüp, Derinkuyu,
Kaymaklı, Ihlara and environment. Traditional Cappadocian houses
and dovecotes carved into stones are showing the uniqueness of
the region. These houses ar