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Museums in Nevşehir

17 museums and archaeological sites in the province of Nevşehir, with hours and what to see at each.

Nevşehir

Çavuşin Church

A rock-cut Byzantine church of 964–965 near Göreme, with a two-floor plan, monks' rooms below and frescoes of Emperor Nikephoros Phokas and his family.

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Nevşehir

Derinkuyu Underground City

An eight-level rock-cut city in Cappadocia where early Christians hid, with stables, kitchens, a church, a missionary school and huge rolling-stone doors.

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Nevşehir

El Nazar Church

A tenth-century rock-cut church in the El Nazar valley near Göreme, painted in an archaic style with scenes from the life of Christ.

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Nevşehir

Göreme Archaeological Site (Göreme Open Air Museum)

Cappadocia's best-known rock-cut monastic complex, with frescoed churches, chapels and refectories from the fourth to thirteenth centuries.

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St. Jean Church, Gülşehir

A two-storey rock-cut church at the edge of Gülşehir in Cappadocia, known for its painted upper chapel and a rare Last Judgment scene.

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Hacıbektaş Museum

A museum in the dervish lodge complex of Hacı Bektaş Veli, the thirteenth-century Anatolian mystic, in the town of Hacıbektaş in Nevşehir province.

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Nevşehir

Dark Church (Göreme)

The most prized church of the Göreme Open Air Museum, a cross-plan rock church whose frescoes stayed vivid because so little light reaches them.

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Nevşehir

Kaymaklı Underground City

A labyrinth of tuff-carved rooms and tunnels eight levels deep at Kaymaklı, built as a refuge and still walkable on four lit levels.

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Nevşehir

Mazı Underground City

A smaller, quieter Cappadocian underground city near Ürgüp, with four entrances, a big rolling stone, stables and a church.

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Nevşehir

Hacıbektaş Archaeology and Ethnography Museum

A small museum in the centre of Hacıbektaş showing finds from the Suluca-Karahöyük mound alongside local carpets, copperware and costume.

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Hacıbektaş Atatürk House Museum

The mud-brick house in Hacıbektaş where Mustafa Kemal spent a night in December 1919 on his way to Ankara, now a small ethnographic museum.

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Nevşehir

Nevşehir Museum

Archaeology and ethnography in the heart of Cappadocia, from Neolithic tools and Hellenistic pottery to Roman glass and Byzantine reliquaries.

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Nevşehir

Özkonak Underground City

A tuff-carved underground settlement near Avanos in Cappadocia, made of galleries linked by tunnels and only partly cleared.

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Sobessos Archaeological Site

A little-known Byzantine town in the Cappadocian countryside near Ürgüp, with a villa, churches and streets uncovered since its discovery in 2002.

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Nevşehir

Tatlarin Underground City

A large underground settlement near Acıgöl with two visitable floors, a rare toilet, and a nearby church with well-preserved 13th-century frescoes.

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Ürgüp Museum

A compact museum of Cappadocian archaeology and ethnography, best known for a Roman bronze bust of Zeus Serapis and an icon of St. Eleftherios.

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Zelve-Paşabağlar Archaeological Site

Three valleys of fairy chimneys in Cappadocia, once a Christian monastic settlement, with rock-cut churches, Saint Simeon's chapel and dovecotes.

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