Some parts of the underground city at Ağırnas are estimated to have been made before Christ, while it is established that the greater part of it was added in the centuries after.
The Christian-period places of worship, the beams and the paintings seen inside it show that it was in use mostly between the first and thirteenth centuries AD. It is at the township of Ağırnas in the Melikgazi district of Kayseri.
Getting there
- Access
- In the town of Ağırnas in the Melikgazi district.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kayseri as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -1.5 °C in January to 22.4 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (52 mm) and lightest in August (9 mm). Long-term means for 1931-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
