4912 x 7360 px | 41,6 x 62,3 cm | 16,4 x 24,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
22 février 2018
Lieu:
Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey
Informations supplémentaires:
Wikipedia: Ortahisar (Turkish: Central Castle) previously known by its Byzantine Greek name Ποταμία (Potamía) is a small town in Ürgüp district of Nevşehir Province, in Cappadocia, Turkey. Ortahisar has 14, 262 inhabitants as of 2015 and is located about 20 km east of the provincial capital, Nevşehir. The entire town is dominated by the 90-metre-high (300 ft) rock-castle in the centre of the town, which is called Sivrikoya by the inhabitants. It is an extraordinary example of the rock-cut architecture which is typical of the region and served as a refuge from attackers in Byzantine times. The town also contains the Cambazlı Kilise ('Church of Acrobats'), a cross-in-square church with 13th-century wall paintings which is now used as a storehouse. A little outside there is a fairy chimney which contains the Üzümlü kilise ('Grapevine Church') from the 8th or 9th century AD. It contains frescoes with grapevines and an image of Mary enthroned with the baby Jesus in the apse. Aside from the rock-cut buildings in the centre of the town, Ortahisar is characterised by a series of simply constructed structures. These buildings are similar in design and rough in appearance. The upper houses are made of blocks of tuff, mostly without mortar. These buildings which were only used for the storage of food in earlier times, are generally only one or two stories high. The upper floor is often accessed by an exterior staircase made of tuff-stone slabs. The more recent buildings are all made from the same kind of stone, but have are made of regular blocks. The exterior walls are covered with white limestone and capped with simple cornices.
