Selime Monastery

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Selime Monastery, Cappadocia: arched doorway, window and dark cave openings carved into a towering tufa rock under blue sky

The monastery at Selime is an astonishing rock-cut structure incorporating a vast kitchen with a soaring chimney, three churches, stables with rock-carved feed troughs and other evidence of the troglodyte lifestyle.

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