Guide
West of the town of Çemişgezek, in the steep limestone cliffs rising above the Tahar valley, some twenty rooms were cut for people to live in. Who cut them is not known. They are arranged on three levels, with large windows lighting the rooms and long corridors connecting them; the rooms measure about 2.5 metres wide and 1.7 metres deep. For water there are cisterns collecting what seeps between the rocks, and there are stairs and galleries cut in the rock to reach the upper rooms.
The complex divides into two parts. The first is entered from outside by a stair. The second is very narrow, with a waiting place at its entrance, from which a stair leads up into a long corridor; on the right of that corridor are windows for light, and directly opposite them the doors of the rooms. Some of the rooms have flat ceilings, others are vaulted. The room at the very top, harder to reach and larger than the rest, is called the Bey's room.
