Besides its unequaled and striking scenery, CAPPADOCIA is full of artistic products belonging to different civilizations. An active rural life, with all its authentic color and folklore, completes the atmosphere. Most of the monasteries, churches and monk cells are decorated with frescoes. Nature, history, art and life itself meet nowhere else in such harmony and unity. Once this magnificient sight was likened to the " surface of the moon ". But now we know that such a view does not exist even on the moon.
No man has ever ventured to this day, to name the seven wonders of nature on this earth. Yet should there be such an attempt, the Cappadocia region would no doubt outshine most candidates and take its place on top of that list. The peculiar formations and sights of this region are definetly unique. One can not help feeling that some majestic sorcerer has chosen this place to perform his magical wonders.
Violent eruptions of the volcanoes Erciyes Mountain and Hasan Mountain three million years ago, covered the surrounding plateau with tuff.
During Byzantine times chapels and monasteries were hollowed out of the rock,and their ochre toned freacoes reflect the hues of the surrounding landscape. Even today, troglodyte dwellings in rock cones and village houses of volcanic tuff merge harmoniously into the landscape.From this brittle rock the wind and rain have eroded Cappadocia's spectacular , surrealist landscape of rock cones, capped pinnacles and fretted ravinnes, in colours ranging from warm reds and golds to cool greens and greys. Cappadocia is one of those rare regions in the world where the works of man blend unobtrusively into the landscape. Dwellings are known to have been hewn from the rock as far back as 4.000 B.C..
