The villages themselves are a major attraction, serving as a base for exploring the surrounding countryside.
Specifically, the Göreme Open-Air Museum and the numerous cave-churches of the Ihlara Valley showcase some of the world's finest examples of mid-Byzantine religious art.
Nestled within this unique, lunar-like landscape are rock-cut churches and cave-cut architecture featuring Byzantine-era frescoes.
The region is home to a breathtaking panorama of undulating rock formations and peaks. These wave-like cliffs and uniquely shaped summits are the result of millennia of erosion by wind and water.