Spread across the middle of Turkey like a lunar landscape, Cappadocia is home to a bizarre field of anthill-like cones, rock-hewn churches and underground cities where Christians once hid to avoid persecution.

It is a spectacular sight and one that has captivated travellers for centuries.

Cappadocia is a triangle with three beautiful towns on its three points: Nevsehir, Urgup and Avanos. It is the name of the ancient province in central Anatolia.

The irresistible region is created through violent eruptions of the volcanoes Mt Erciyes (3916m) and Mt Hasan (3268m) three million years ago.

In the middle of this triangle lies Goreme, the famous town with rock churches. The river Kizilirmak, the wind and the weather have eroded the soft volcanic rock into hundreds and hundreds of strangely shaped pillars, cones and "fairy chimneys" or isolated pinnacles.

The Taurus Mountains, which are technically part of the Alpine chain, in their creation 60 million years ago caused the warping of the Anatolian plateau.

The resulting volcanoes, including the spectacular Mt Erciyas and Mt Hasan, produced the tuff from which the unique landscape of Cappadocia is formed.

At the beginning of Christianity, the early Christians made countless cave churches and monasteries. There are more than 400 scattered through the valleys.

Cappadocia by Mehmet Cuhadar was published in 1997 by Revak, Istanbul, Turkey.

It is a quality large-format 112-page 20x27cm card soft cover in near-new condition with many absolutely brilliant photographs.

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