Göreme Open-Air Museum

The Göreme Open-Air Museum is a group of churches, chapels and monastic refectories cut into the volcanic rock of a valley outside Göreme. Most date from the 10th to 12th centuries; the Elmalı, Barbara and Çarıklı churches keep painted scenes from the life of Christ, and the Dark Church, on a separate ticket, has frescoes whose colours survived because little light gets in.