Thanks to the irresistible generosity of the Natural Mother, Cappadocia (which means "Land of beautiful horses") is a unique holiday place. The soil is formed from a very soft volcanic terrain, ash and lava eroded from volcanoes. Rivers, streams, rains, snow and ice shaped this ground. Erosion is the source of this supernatural landscape. However, Cappadocia's big reputation as being a magnificent place to visit is also thanks to the generous hospitality of its inhabitants.

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Cappadocia, strategically located at the crossroads of major communication and trading routes like the "silk road", was alsothe cradle of different civilizations over the centuries beginning with the Hittite Empire.

 

The tuff was so easy to work, even using primitive tools, that inhabitants were able to carve their cave-dwellings into the rock. Later, when Christians arrived, they carved many churches and decorated them with frescoes.

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