Göreme is a touristic village in the province Nevşehir, in central Anatolia of Türkiye.
With a spectacular landscape shaped entirely by erosion, the Göreme Valley and its surroundings are home to rock-hewn sanctuaries, a unique testament to post-iconoclastic Byzantine art. There are also dwellings, settlement villages and underground cities, remnants of traditional human habitats dating back to the 4th century.
Göreme National Park (Cappadocia)
Located on the central Anatolia plateau within a volcanic landscape sculpted by erosion to form a succession of mountain ridges, valleys and pinnacles known as “fairy chimneys”, Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia cover the region between the cities of Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Avanos, the sites of Karain, Karlık, Yeşilöz, Soğanlı and the subterranean cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu.
The area is bounded on the south and east by ranges of extinct volcanoes with Erciyes Dağ (3916 m) at one end and Hasan Dağ (3253 m) at the other. The density of its rock-hewn cells, churches, troglodyte villages and subterranean cities within the rock formations make it one of the world's most striking and largest cave-dwelling complexes. Though interesting from a geological and ethnological point of view, the incomparable beauty of the decor of the Christian sanctuaries makes Cappadocia one of the leading examples of the post-iconoclastic Byzantine art period.
The best hotel rooms in the natural (tuff stone) rock in Göreme.