Places to visit in Nevşehir
7 places from Nevşehir province are on the map: Cappadocia, Ürgüp & Üç Güzeller, Uçhisar Castle, Avanos & Kızılırmak, Zelve & Paşabağı, Nevşehir Castle, and 1 more. Each has a model-like miniature, a short story and a Numa Made ring on Isometric Turkey.
Cappadocia
Why would a land be called “the land of beautiful horses”? The name Cappadocia is said to come from the Old Persian “Katpatuka”, a word meaning “land of beautiful horses”. Linguists are not…
See on the map →Ürgüp & Üç Güzeller
Have you ever climbed a hill to make a wish? The hill rising in the middle of Ürgüp is named for just that: Temenni, “wish”… Climb it — it can be seen from nearly every corner of town — and…
See on the map →Uçhisar Castle
Of unreachable places we say “no bird flies there, no caravan passes”… In Uçhisar things are a little different; here birds not only fly but settle, and in homes carefully carved just for…
See on the map →Avanos & Kızılırmak
How many thousands of years of memory can a handful of clay hold? Step into a pottery workshop in Avanos and watch the master at his foot-turned wheel, and you will see the answer in the…
See on the map →Zelve & Paşabağı
Saint Simeon, who lived in Syria in the fifth century, chose an unusual way to withdraw from the world: he climbed to the top of a pillar and spent more than thirty years of his life there…
See on the map →Nevşehir Castle
“Come, let us bring some joy to this joyless heart / Let us go, my swaying cypress, come, to Sa‘dâbâd,” says Nedim. This merry poet of the Tulip Era sings of the revels at Sadâbâd, laid out…
See on the map →Hacıbektaş
“Be master of your hand, your tongue and your loins.” This counsel, attributed to Hacı Bektaş Veli, has been on Anatolia’s lips for centuries. Three words; yet weighty enough to last a…
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