Uçhisar Castle & Ortahisar: Cappadocia Fortress Towns Uçhisar Castle and Ortahisar represent Cappadocia’s two most impressive rock-cut fortress settlements, where Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations carved defensive strongholds into massive fairy chimneys creating vertical villages that served as watchtowers, refuges, and residential complexes for centuries. Rising 60 meters and 86 meters […]