[09/01/2008] If you go to Cappadoccia you must visit also this place.
As our guide told us, In the Byzantium time if a family has on their ground a chapel, they dont own government taxes.
This is the reason why all that area is full with monasteries and chapels. And because everything there, even the houses, are built into the rocks the chapels are diged in the rocks too.
It is a place as nowhere else I have visited before. It has few chapels which are around the valley. It has also a kitchen all there is made from the soft rock.
Some of the chapels have also wall paintings with Christian icons a
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