The site at Günbuldu has been heavily damaged: of what the Ministry of Culture and Tourism calls a settlement with the look of an ancient city, what remains today is a mihrab, stones carved with crosses, and graves. Two ram statues taken from here are now in the provincial centre.
The caves and remains lie about 400 metres outside the village. Shelters, a temple, places of worship, rooms and caves are cut into the rock, and traces of different faiths can be seen in the shelters and the places of worship. Günbuldu is 12 kilometres from the district centre of Diyadin.
Getting there
- Access
- City transport reaches it.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ağrı as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -10.4 °C in January to 21.4 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in April (71 mm) and lightest in August (13 mm). Long-term means for 1940-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
