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Open the destination map ↗Explore Avanos
Browse six places at a time. Choose a destination or use the filters to narrow your selection.
Paşabağ — Monks Valley
Explore Cappadocia’s distinctive capped rock formations and their relationship with carved religious spaces. Read the landscape from permitted paths, then check the precise Paşabağ entrance and admission scope before combining it with Zelve.
Explore this place ↗Zelve Open-Air Museum
Discover a former inhabited rock-cut settlement spread through three valleys. Look beyond the skyline to religious and everyday spaces, while distinguishing the historical site from the visitor circuit currently open to the public.
Explore this place ↗No places match.
Two sites, two visit decisions
Paşabağ and Zelve are grouped here within the Avanos destination area. This opening collection focuses on these two sites; it is not comprehensive coverage of Avanos town or its surroundings.
Editorial planning suggestion: choose your main visit, check its actual entrance and confirm whether a ticket product includes both sites. Plan any transfer and the return journey separately. Proximity on a map does not establish a measured or accessible walking route.