Kaymaklı Underground City
An underground city of narrow passages, storerooms and rolling stone doors, cut into the soft volcanic tuff, where villagers could shelter from raids with their animals.
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
21 km. Cave churches, valleys and two underground cities.
Derinkuyu
About 10 km as the crow flies. 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.
Cappadocia and the Konya plain
3 days, 6 places, Nevşehir to Konya.
Also nearby
- 10 kmDerinkuyu Underground City
Underground city, Iron Age?–Byzantine
- 21 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)