Yunak Evleri Cappadocia In Cappadocia's Magical Landscape of Fairy Chimneys, in The Ancient Village of Urgup, is A Unique Cave Hotel carved into A Mountain Cliff, The Yunak Evleri.
This Hotel includes 7 Cave Houses, 40 Rooms dating back to the 5th and 6th Centuries and a 19th Century Greek Mansion.
Yunak Evleri is An Inspiring Hotel - an ideal base for exploring Cappadocia's Elaborate Underground Cities, Hidden Cavernous Churches and Enchanting Rock Terrain.
A Labyrinth of Narrow Passageways and Curved Stone Stairways lead to Unique Rooms tastefully decorated in Warm Traditional Style. These Exceptional Cave Houses are renovated and decorated with care and in their Own Distinct Style with strictly respecting the local character.
The decor is elegant and personalized with beautiful hand-crafted furnishings and antiques. All Rooms have Private Patios overlooking the Turkish Mesa. With 40 Rooms, Yunak Evleri is small enough to be intimate, yet large enough to offer you privacy. Accommodations Range from Exotic Luxury Caves to Multi-Chamber Deluxe Suites, including Family Suites.
One can find the signs of past times in each room which all have been decorated differently. The elegant decor is prominent wherever you lay your eyes on. Emperador Marble Floors, handcrafted lace curtains, antique chests and bedside tables, traditional bed covers, old brass bedsteads, old handcrafted writing desks, old kilim carpets and antique lighting have been chosen with care and with simplicity in mind.
At the foot of the cliff stands the hotel's main lobby. Housed in a 19th century Greek Mansion, the main building exudes a kind of sophisticated charm. Within the stone building, cozy meeting rooms provide a soothing atmosphere for lounging in the evening. Alongside a room with computer and wireless Internet connection, the music room has a wide variety of CDs you can borrow and the TV room is decked out in plush Turkish Cushions with a view of the surrounding cliffs.
There is a DVD Room on the IInd floor decorated with local handmade pottery accessories, candles and a lovely furnace. Evenings are characterized by sunset gatherings on soft upholstered Turkish Pillows warmed by an outdoor fireplace.
Candlelight Dining is offered on the adjacent Rooftop Terrace. We serve local homemade foods for dinner and an open-buffet breakfast.
Yunak Evleri opened its doors to its guests in 2000 and since then has hosted around 200,000 Travelers from All Regions of the World. Listed in Various Prominent Guidebooks' Top Hotels Lists, Yunak Evleri has created a peaceful balance between Modern Today and Traditional Past.
With its convenient location in the center of Urgup, Yunak Evleri is a perfect base for daily excursions within Cappadocia.
From Neolithic Times, sodium chloride (table salt) was produced there from the upwelling brine. The Wieliczka Salt Mine, excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world's oldest operating Salt Mines. Throughout its history, the Royal Salt Mine was operated by the Żupy Krakowskie (Kraków Salt Mines) Company.
Due to falling salt prices and mine flooding, commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is now an Official Polish Historic Monument (Pomnik Historii) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its attractions include the shafts and labyrinthine passageways, displays of historic salt-mining technology, an underground lake, four chapels and numerous statues carved by miners out of the rock salt, and more recent sculptures by contemporary artists.
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within 5 main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a Centre of research specializing in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a cathedral of nature—both exemplified by the large Diplodocus cast that dominated the vaulted central hall before it was replaced in 2017 with the skeleton of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling.
The Natural History Museum Library contains extensive books, journals, manuscripts and artwork collections linked to the work and research of the scientific departments; access to the library is by appointment only. The museum is recognised as the pre-eminent Centre of natural history and research of related fields in the world.
Although commonly referred to as the Natural History Museum, it was officially known as British Museum (Natural History) until 1992, despite legal separation from the British Museum itself in 1963. Originating from collections within the British Museum, the landmark Alfred Waterhouse building was built and opened by 1881 and later incorporated the Geological Museum. The Darwin Centre is a more recent addition, partly designed as a modern facility for storing the valuable collections.
The beautiful Alhambra Palace is located in Granada, Spain, on the hill of La Sabica on the southeast side of the City. It was built in the 14th century and is the best preserved Arab Palace.
Its full name is "Qal'at-al-Hambra" which means "The Red Fortress" because of the shade of the Towers and Walls that surround the Whole Hill.
Today the Alhambra is the most visited Tourist Attraction in Spain and not unjustly since the whole image of the palaces seems to have come out of a fairy tale.
