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ZİNDAN HILL
It is 1 km from center of the town. it was found by chance. It was built as a complex in the past. There are a guardhouse at the entrance, interrogation cell, detention cell at upper level, and judgment hall near these places. There are places for judge, and members of jury, advocacy, audience also dugeon prison inside of this saloon. Near this saloon, the cemetery was found with twelve graves. In the one of these graves, there was a corpse whose head was cut with guillotine. According to first examination in this place, the guilty had been passed away from closed tunnels to center trial. Then, they had been taken to dugeon prison or guillotine. There are small places for counselling and visitors on the left of entrance of this building, By looking these places, it is understood that the guilty had been taken from tunnels for meeting his or her visitors at here. There are a dormitory for guardians on the north of center trial, also eight of them have got good condition now.
BALKAN CHURCH
It is 2 km from center of the town. Totally there are four churches. Two of them were built in a big rock, others were built into the cone-shaped rock group. A large cross is seen at the dome of these rock groups. There are carved cist tombs on the ground. These tombs may belong to burial chapel of Saints. These churches were examined by G. de JERPHANION in 1911 and thanks to him, it was introduced to the world.
SUTUNLU CHURCH It is 3 km north of the town and into a valley called as Mısır Ören steam. It is 8.90 m long, 6.50 m wide also cross-planned. There are niches for four angel at its dome. There aren’ t any pictures except for geometric shapes. At the altar of this church, there are Betlehem colums as a relief that are interesting building style. Before this church was built, another church was here. But it was destroyed by lightning strikes. Sutunlu church was built on the same rock by using other church’ s solid altars. With settlement places, cemetery shapel, also other buildings around this church, it is thought as a monastery church. There are same churches near Göreme, but structure of this building is different form others.