Pointed rock cones with cave openings in a valley at Zelve under a clear blue sky.

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Zelve Open-Air Museum

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.

Nearby

Paşabağ

tourist attraction

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