Derinkuyu Underground City
The deepest of Cappadocia’s underground cities open to visitors, several storeys down through the rock, with air shafts, stables, kitchens, wells and a chapel.
Plan your visit
For a first visit at an easy pace.
Opening hours and prices change: see muze.gov.tr (opens in a new tab).
Times are our estimates. Distances are straight lines.
Its place in history
Read the chapter before you go.
From here
Göreme
31 km. Cave churches, valleys and two underground cities.
Aşıklı Höyük
About 44 km as the crow flies. A village of mud-brick houses by the Melendiz river, lived in from around 8400 BC, where people were among the first anywhere to keep sheep and goats in pens.
Cappadocia and the Konya plain
3 days, 6 places, Nevşehir to Konya.
Also nearby
- 10 kmKaymaklı Underground City
Underground city, Byzantine
- 31 kmGöreme / Cappadocia rock sites
Rock-cut churches, Byzantine
- museumGöreme Open-Air Museum
Rock-cut Byzantine churches and frescoes
- museumNevşehir Museum
- museumZelve Open-Air Museum
Rock-cut settlement
- museumÜrgüp Museum
Location approximate · whc.unesco.org | coordinates added manually (approximate)