ÜRGÜP

WORLD CİTY-ÜRGÜP

Ürgüp,  my hometown,is really authentic  place that everyone should see here.I’m sure that you love this cityJ

Ürgüp has traditionally been the tourism center of Central Anatolia's Cappadocia regio.

It used to be that Ürgüp was for luxurious visitors and tour groups, and Göreme for backpackers, but that has changed. There are now excellent boutique hotels and inns in both towns, although Ürgüp does have many more of these.

The center of Ürgüp  boasts many fine old houses of carved Cappadocian stone. The soft volcanic tufa lends itself to carving for decoration and to expansion: if the house needs a new room, the residents merely hollow one out of the hillside into which the house is built.

Like most Cappadocian towns, Ürgüp clings to the walls of a valley and tumbles down along the valley floor for some distance.

The town has many fine inns with cave rooms such as the Esbelli Evi, as well as cheaper pensions. On the outskirts of the town toward Kayseri are large modern hotels designed for tour groups.

The center of Ürgüp has shops, a historic hamam, and the Temenni Hill, a high rock ledge looming above the very center of town, with a saint's tomb at its edge. Temenni was a favorite place to go for the fine view, and to watch the sunset, but in spring 2007 a section of the rock collapsed on several buildings in the town, so the viewing terrace is being reconstructed.:(