Aydintepe underground city
An underground city found 2
to 2.5 meters deep from the surface . City was made up from carved bedrock galleries , vaulted rooms and large venues.
Vaulted rooms which is about a
meter wide and 2.5 meters in height are
expanding to almost square shaped rooms (3 x 8 meters). In addition it is also
observed that the holes are made for ventilation is also used for supplying
daylights to the rooms.
It is believed that the city were built during the late Roman and Early
Byzantium period when the Christianity is a very new and not broadly accepted
religion. Therefore Christian believers had built these underground cities to
run away from the pressures and attacks of nonbelievers. The first Christians were settled as refugees in Aydintepe underground city.
How to go Aydintepe ?
Aydintepe district is 24 kilometers far from the city center is connected to
district via an asphalt road. Buses run
every day from the town to Aydintepe can be caught to get the Aydintepe
underground city.