Kayseri

2 places to see from here1 night on The Hittite heartland

A city under Mount Erciyes, with Seljuk tombs and a citadel in the centre. Kültepe, the Assyrian merchants’ town, is just to the north-east.

What to see from here

Distances are straight lines from the town centre.

19 km
Kültepe (Kanesh)
Kanesh, where Assyrian merchants traded tin and textiles around 1900 BC and left tens of thousands of letters and contracts, the oldest written documents in Anatolia. Allow about 1–2 hours.
58 km
Göreme / Cappadocia rock sites
Valleys of fairy chimneys and rock-cut churches, many painted with Byzantine frescoes; the open-air museum gathers some of the finest. Allow about a full day.