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Cappadocia has many places worth seeing.  Let me introduce five places of them.

The Goreme Open-Air Museum.

   It was made by the Christians escaping from the Roman soldiers.   It contains the finest rock-cut churches.  The churches have beautiful frescoes whose colors still retain all their original freshness.  Most of the churches in Goreme Open Air Museum belong to the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries.  That museum has been a member of UNESCO World Heritage List since 1985.

 

The Zelve Open-Air Museum.

   Here, the Christians and Muslims lived together until 1924.  Then Christians had to leave the Valley because of the nation’s problem between Turkey and Greece.  And the Muslims were forced to evacuate the Valley in the 50's because life became dangerous due to risk of erosion.