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Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26788
'Cave-dwellings in Göreme.'

	At the southern edge of the Cappadocian village of Göreme the warm light of the evening sun is lighting up dwellings that have been excavated in a thick layer of volcanic tuff. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26792
'Fairy chimneys in Görkün Valley-2.'

	The Görkün Valley south of the Cappadocian village of Göreme boasts some of the most spectacular fairy chimneys. The pillars consist of tuff (consolidated volcanic ash) that has been protected from rain erosion by a cap of harder more solidified ash (ignimbrite). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26802
'Fairy chimneys by night.'

	The Görkün Valley south of the Cappadocian village of Göreme boasts some of the most spectacular fairy chimneys, here seen by moonlight under a starry sky. The pillars consist of tuff (consolidated volcanic ash) that has been protected from rain erosion by a cap of harder more solidified ash (ignimbrite). Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26840
'Tower in Pigeon Valley-4.'

	A massive natural tower, eroded from tuff (consolidated volcanic ash), guards the entrance to the Pigeon (Uzundere) Valley, southwest of the Cappadocian village of Göreme. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26837
'Tower in Pigeon Valley-3.'

	A massive natural tower, eroded from tuff (consolidated volcanic ash), guards the entrance to the Pigeon (Uzundere) Valley, southwest of the Cappadocian village of Göreme. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26834
'Tower in Pigeon Valley-2.'

	A massive natural tower, eroded from tuff (consolidated volcanic ash), guards the entrance to the Pigeon (Uzundere) Valley, southwest of the Cappadocian village of Göreme. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26843
'Cones in Pigeon Valley.'

	The Pigeon (Uzundere) Valley, south of the Cappadocian village of Göreme, has been named after the many pigeon houses that have been carved into the soft tuff cones since ancients times. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26871
'Church of the Three Crosses-2.'

	The Cappadocian Callidere Valley, north of Göreme, harbours the Byzantine Church of the Three Crosses, which has been carved into the soft tuff. The crosses that have given their name to the cave-church are cut into the ceiling. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26855
'Church in Hallacdere monastery-1.'

	In this Byzantine cave-church in the Halladere monastic complex,  northeast of the Cappadocian village of Ortahisar, false columns and vaulting have been carved into the tuff. In later times the church has functioned as a pigeon house, which is the reason why the outer wall has a rectangular niche with twelve entrance holes for pigeons. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[TURKEY.CENTRAL 26788
'Cave-dwellings in Göreme.'

At the southern edge of the Cappadocian village of Göreme the warm light of the evening sun is lighting up dwellings that have been excavated in a thick layer of volcanic tuff. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
Smit & Palarczyk > [TURKEY.CENTRAL 26788
'Cave-dwellings in Göreme.'

	At the southern edge of the Cappadocian village of Göreme the warm light of the evening sun is lighting up dwellings that have been excavated in a thick layer of volcanic tuff. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[TURKEY.CENTRAL 26788
'Cave-dwellings in Göreme.'

At the southern edge of the Cappadocian village of Göreme the warm light of the evening sun is lighting up dwellings that have been excavated in a thick layer of volcanic tuff. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
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