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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.
Zelve is a former cave village spread over three valleys on the slopes of Aktepe, north of Göreme, where houses, churches, a mosque, a mill and dovecotes are cut into the rock. Erosion forced its last residents to move out in the 1950s, and the empty valleys were opened to visitors; one ticket also covers the fairy chimneys of nearby Paşabağ.
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