Avanos

In Anatolia the manual production of earthenware pots began at Konya Çatalhöyük in the Neolithic Period (7th millennium B.C.). 2th millennium B.C. Assyrian Merchants of Mesopotamia came to Anatolia to engage in commerce. They taught the Hittites living in Anatolia how to make pottery by using the wheel. Production by the same method is still being used in Avanos today, this craft reached over times through different generations and civilizations.

Avanos is the handicraft centre of Cappadocia. There are approximately 300 pottery workshops in the small town and a loom in every home for carpet weaving. The inhabitants of Avanos produce wine from the grapes of the vineyards in the area as well as a kind of grape jam called Pekmez. The old semi troglodyte houses with sculptured facades, built on the banks of the Kızılırmak River, add to the beauty of the region. Fairy chimneys, marvels of nature formed by the erosion of soft rock (tuff) and rock churches hollowed out by the first Christians are also worthwhile seeing in the surroundings of Avanos.

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