Derinkuyu Underground City / Cappadocia

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Watch the ingenious construction of Derinkuyu underground city in Cappadocia, possibly the largest underground city in the world.
Derinkuyu's underground city was discovered in 1963 when a dark passageway was revealed during the renovation work of his house. After the excavation began, and an intricate city network of underground dwellings, dry food warehouses, barns, schools, wineries, and a chapel emerged.
About 100 meters below the fairy chimneys, a huge living space that has been used for thousands of years is open to visitors, and hundreds of local and foreign tourists visit this gigantic underground city every day.

Derinkuyu underground city, an ancient city that has been hidden for centuries, was built on many floors and has the capacity to hide about 20 thousand people for a long time.
Each floor of Derinkuyu underground city has been carefully designed for the purposes of its inhabitants. Animals are kept on floors close to the surface to reduce the odor of cattle living on the upper floors and possibly toxic gases and to create insulation during the winter months.

While the middle floors are the living areas, training, and meeting rooms, the lower floors are reserved for the cistern and wine cellars. This special design shows that Derinkuyu's underground city residents were designed to stay underground for months.

It has been used for many years, from the Phrygians to the Persians and Christians of the Byzantine period.

It is thought that the Derinkuyu underground city stretches for tens of kilometers, and at the same time, around 200 different small underground cities discovered in the region and there is a large underground network, connected to these tunnels

Structure of Derinkuyu Underground City
Although the Phrygians, Persians, and Seljuks used the Derinkuyu underground city and expanded the underground city in the following centuries, Derinkuyu's population reached its peak during the Byzantine period and nearly 20,000 people lived underground.

Derinkuyu is full of deliberately narrow and short corridors, and visitors have to navigate using narrow corridors. It is inconvenient for those with claustrophobia to enter because the underground city with a similar structure to the labyrinth gives a fear of closed spaces. You have to bend over and walk in a single file; it is possible to encounter a group going up on the lower floors and it may cause panic.