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Nevşehir

Municipality in Turkey

Nev­ş­e­hir

Nevşehir is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey.

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It is the seat of Nevşehir Province and Nevşehir District. Its population is 128,290 (2024). It is 290 km (180 mi) from the capital Ankara and lies within the historical region of Cappadocia. Nevşehir was declared a World Peace City by the United Nations.

Get in

Getting to Nevşehir

  1. 01
    Nevşehir Kapadokya Airport

    Flights from Istanbul take 90 min - by Turkish Airlines from IST and Ajet from SAW, with as many as 7 a day at the height of the tourist season.

See

Worth seeing

  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.

Do

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.

Eat

Where to eat

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

How locals move

Getting around Nevşehir the local way

  • Get inis the street where the dolmuş from the bus terminal brings you.
  • Get aroundKaymaklı and Derinkuyu are substantial villages along D765 to Niğde, so there should be a dolmuş running every 15 minutes.

From Wikivoyage: Nevşehir, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-05.

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