Nevşehir

Worth seeing in and around Nevşehir

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Nevşehir Museum

   Nevşehir Museum is in Nevşehir, Turkey. Nevşehir is the provincial center in the region which is the Capadocia of the antiquity and known for its fairy chimneys.

   1 km · museum in Nevşehir District · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University

   Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, commonly referred to as Nevşehir University, is a public institute of higher education established in 2007 located in Nevşehir, Turkey.

   6 km · state university in Nevşehir, Turkey · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Nevşehir Castle

   Nevşehir Castle is a historic castle in the city of Nevşehir, overlooking the underground city of Kayaşehir. It was a fortress for defensive, military purposes.

   700 m · historic castle · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Nevşehir Castle

   Hilltop citadel built by the Seljuks around 1100 AD, probably over an older Roman / Byzantine bastion.

2. 02
   Kayaşehir

   Rock City is a great labyrinth of underground chambers on castle hill, most exposed on the east slope and accessed by boardwalks from Kaya Mosque, but probably right around in areas not yet excavated.

3. 03
   Nevşehir Museum

   Depicts archeological, historic and ethnographic life of the region.

4. 04
   Nar is an old town quarter

   There's probably another underground city below which it's not feasible to excavate, but property owners have created small hotels and restaurants in the cellars.

5. 05
   Kaymaklı

   This has 4 underground floors open to visitors: the second level had a church, the third was the main living space, and the fourth had storage and metal-working shops.

From Wikivoyage: Nevşehir, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Hamams - traditional Turkish baths - are within the Damati Ibrahim Pasa complex, open daily 07:00-23:00. Lunapark children's amusement park in town centre remains closed.

From Wikivoyage: Nevşehir, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Lots of small places along the main east-west street Atatürk Blv near its intersection with Lale Cd running north-south.

From Wikivoyage: Nevşehir, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Nevşehir

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Nevşehir Kapadokya (NAV), 22 km · Kayseri Erkilet (ASR), 70 km · Çukurova (COV), 195 km

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