The towering "fairy chimneys" are carved-out of rock formations created millions of years ago.
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"Ravage" (2017), Yaşam Şaşmazer's wooden sculpture of a woman in what looks like a yogic child pose, occupies one of the fairy chimneys.
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The region's mushroom-tipped pillars, fairy chimneys, and jagged hills house troglodyte-style homes and places of worship carved out of the soft sandstone.
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So it's unsurprising to see the fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, tinged orange and red, serving as a stand-in for Mars in Halil Altindere's video installation Space Refugee.
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From its cave houses to unique rock formations called "fairy chimneys," the unique anatomy of this ancient city in central Anatolia offers the artist a natural film set.
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Cappadocia once included the area now covered by this province. This province is notable for the fairy chimneys of Göreme, the Ortahisar (middle fortress), a number of old churches from the Byzantine period.
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The city is located at a distance of from the capital Ankara, and is within the historical region of Cappadocia. The traditional main sources of income of the city, carpet weaving and viticulture, have been overtaken by tourism, because of its proximity to the underground shelters, the fairy chimneys, monasteries, caravanserais and the famous rock-hewn churches of Göreme.
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Fairy chimneys in Uçhisar, Cappadocia. Cappadocia lies in central Anatolia, in the heartland of what is now Turkey. The relief consists of a high plateau over 1000 m in altitude that is pierced by volcanic peaks, with Mount Erciyes (ancient Argaeus) near Kayseri (ancient Caesarea) being the tallest at . The boundaries of historical Cappadocia are vague, particularly towards the west.
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The general appearance of the 3 storey building resembles that of Seljukid cupolas in the city and the fairy chimneys lying to the east of Aksaray. There are 15639 items in the museum.Cultural property page One of the most important items exhibited in the open area of the museum is the lower half of a stele with a relief of Hittite Storm God. Its dimensions are 88x99x39 cm3.
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Nevşehir Museum () is in Nevşehir, Turkey Nevşehir is the provencial center in the region which is the Capadocia of the antiquity and known for its fairy chimneys. The museum at is on Türbe Street in 350 Evler neighborhood of Nevşehir.Nevşehir map The former museum of Nevşehir was in a historical building which served from 1967 to 1987 when a new building was opened as a museum. In the museum there are two halls one for the archaeology and one for the ethnography.
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Göreme Open Air Museum Göreme is a district of the Nevşehir Province in Turkey. After the eruption of Mount Erciyes about 2.6 million years ago, ash and lava formed soft rocks in the Cappadocia Region, covering a region of about . The softer rock was eroded by wind and water, leaving the hard cap rock on top of pillars, forming the present-day fairy chimneys. People of Göreme, at the heart of the Cappadocia Region, realized that these soft rocks could be easily carved out to form houses, churches, and monasteries.
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Cappadocia, in this sense, was bounded in the south by the chain of the Taurus Mountains that separate it from Cilicia, to the east by the upper Euphrates, to the north by Pontus, and to the west by Lycaonia and eastern Galatia. Van Dam, R. Kingdom of Snow: Roman rule and Greek culture in Cappadocia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, p.13. The name, traditionally used in Christian sources throughout history, continues in use as an international tourism concept to define a region of exceptional natural wonders, in particular characterized by fairy chimneys and a unique historical and cultural heritage.
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Hoodoos in Hin Khndzoresk, ArmeniaIn Armenia, Hoodoos are found in Goris, Khndzoresk, Hin Khot and several other places in the marz of Syunik, where many were once carved into and inhabited or used. In French, the formations are called demoiselles coiffées (ladies with hairdos) or cheminées de fées (fairy chimneys) and several are found in the Alpes-de- Haute-Provence; one of the best-known examples is the formation called Demoiselles Coiffées de Pontis. The hoodoo stones on the northern coast of Taiwan are unusual for their coastal setting. The stones formed as the seabed rose rapidly out of the ocean during the Miocene epoch.
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The geographical context within which Kayakapi Neighbourhood is located is characterized by a semi-mountainous landscape and volcanic tuff, pumice and basalt rocks. The fairy chimneys uniquely found in this region of Anatolia and the tradition of rock-carved houses are a result of the nature of this special kind of soft tuff stone. The most prominent river in the province is Kızılırmak (Halys), with secondary rivers flowing down from Hodul Mountain (1.949m) and joining it; among these, Damsa river is also the site of the region’s only lake and the valley on which Ürgüp is situated. A severe inland climate dominates the area, with seasonal and day-to-night temperature differences exceeding 20 °C.
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