FAIRY CHIMNEYS | CAPPADOCIA | TURKEY

We know that you have a deep curiosity while visiting Cappadocia, one of the most mysterious places in the world. Thousands of questions come to mind of the traveler: "How fairy chimneys were formed, how people skillfully carved the fairy chimneys, who made these underground cities, how so many people lived under the ground". Even though there is a scientific explanation for the formation of fairy chimneys, we know that the mystical air suggests as follows; 'Was Cappadocia formerly a paradise of fairies or did nature want to show a miracle!'

Strabon, the famous geographer of the Roman era, drew the borders of Cappadocia for the first time in history. Starting from the Taurus in the south, it called the Cappadocia a wide area, namely the East Black Sea coastline in the north, Aksaray in the west and Malatya in the east. Today, the region we call Cappadocia covers the provinces of Aksaray, Nevşehir, Niğde, Kırşehir and Kayseri. Among these borders, Avanos, Ürgüp, Göreme, Uçhisar and Ihlara surroundings are known as 'Rocky Cappadocia Region'.The history of fairy chimneys that are old enough to make them say 'Whatever he saw, what he saw was a language' was actually the history of Cappadocia. Cappadocia has seen many civilizations since the formation of fairy chimneys. The interior of the fairy chimneys, the natural buildings of the region, began to be carved in the Paleolithic period when the first human settlement. After the times of the Hittites, in the 3rd century, it was used both as a shelter, a place of worship and a house for the first Christians to freely practice their faith. In the 11th and 12th century, Cappadocia witnessed the resistance of Christians to both Arab raiders and other invasions, until the Seljuks.