Open to visitors all year round
Manazan Caves: A Mysterious Atmosphere
It is located on the edge of the Karaman-Yeşildere Taşkale road, in the east of the Yeşildere Valley extending between Yeşildere and Taşkale Villages. The distance to Karaman is 42 kilometers. The caves are five-storey collective dwellings carved entirely by human hands into a high rock mass in limestone terrain with a high clay content.
As a result of research on residential areas such as Manazan, Zanzana and Miske, traces of the Phrygian, Late Roman, Early Christian, Byzantine, Seljuk and Ottoman periods were identified. It has been understood from the materials such as pottery and other ruins found in the Manazan caves that this settlement was used mostly in the Roman and Early Christian periods.
It has a strategic location that can control the valley from the east and west. The other floors carved into the high rock mass in the middle are locally called Sand Castle, Horse Square and Dead Square.
Open to visitors all year round
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