Discovering three underground cities in Turkey
Turkey is an awesome country full of beautiful landscapes, interesting places, and great tourist attractions. This time, on our travel blog, we will get deep down and discover three underground cities in Turkey.
That’s right, underground cities in Turkey. There are three main places we would like to show you: Kaymaklı Underground City, Derinkuyu Underground City, and Özkonak Underground City. All they are slightly different and one of them has 18 levels underground and it is thought to have been able to protect 20 000 inhabitants for long periods of time! So let’s start to discover those interesting places!
KAYMAKLI UNDERGROUND CITY
You can find a lot of underground cities in Turkey’s Cappadocia, but the Kaymaklı Underground City is the best one from them. It is said that some of those places were built around 2000 BCE and expanded in time by later civilizations. There are a lot of quarters and chambers here for different purposes: stables, rooms for living, storage or even for making a wine.

Kaymakli Underground City, Turkey
Kaymaklı Underground City was not built for defense (like Özkonak) and it’s not as deep as Derinkuyu, but this one has a lot of space and it’s much wider than any other underground city in Turkey. It has eight floors of subterranean defense, but right now only four of them are open for tourists.
Interesting fact: Many of the chambers and tunnels in Kaymaklı Underground City are still used by the local people for storage or even for living purposes[……]















