Ihlara Valley: The Canyon Where Cappadocia Hides Its Rock-Cut Churches
A 14-km canyon with a hundred Byzantine churches carved into the rock, a river and not a single hot air balloon: Ihlara is the Cappadocia you walk through.
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A 14-km canyon with a hundred Byzantine churches carved into the rock, a river and not a single hot air balloon: Ihlara is the Cappadocia you walk through.
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In Fener, Istanbul, the only Byzantine church that always remained Greek Orthodox: hidden behind a wall, you enter by ringing the bell.
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On the Golden Horn, in Hasköy, an 18th-century Ottoman kiosk-palace with Venetian mirrors and a museum of Turkish musical instruments.
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In Karaköy, a minute from the ferries, a wholly underground mosque in the dungeons of a Byzantine fortress. Squat pillars and three tombs.
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St. Stephen in Balat (Istanbul): a church of cast iron founded in Vienna, a Bulgarian symbol on the Golden Horn. Free entry.
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