Church & Monastery
Hundreds of chambers cut into the rock run along both slopes of the valley: shelters, stores, chapels and burial rooms. Some came into use from the 1st century AD onwards and grew into an ordered network of monasteries and places of worship in the Byzantine period. The workability of the soft volcanic rock made this fabric possible. Walking the slopes you can see many of them from outside; take care if you enter, as some are not safe.
- Period
- Roman – Byzantine
- Function
- Shelter, chapel, burial chamber
- Location
- Both slopes of the valley