What is called a castle here is a settlement cut out of a natural rock face, north-west of the Göynüs valley in the İhsaniye district of Afyonkarahisar. It came into use in the Phrygian period and was lived in again under the Byzantines.
Besides various spaces, a large cistern with steps, now filled with stone, can still be seen. Immediately beside the castle is a necropolis of chamber tombs cut into the rock and graves of the box type.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Afyonkarahisar as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 22.2 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (56 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
