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This local women's cooperative serves up true homespun village flavours with mantı (Turkish ravioli), içli köfte (ground lamb and onion with a bulgur coating, often served as a hot meze) and stuffed vine leaves on the menu. If you're here for lunch, you'll also often be able to watch the women making the intricate mantı pasta for the day.


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1. Old Village

0.11 MILES

The back alleys of Ürgüp are home to many examples of the traditional stone architecture of this region. In particular, in the northern section of the old…

2. Temenni Wishing Hill

0.16 MILES

Home to a saint's tomb and a cafe, this viewpoint has 360-degree views over Ürgüp.

4. Ürgüp Museum

0.32 MILES

This dusty, rather neglected small museum features some 10-million-year-old tusks from a forerunner of the elephant, unearthed at Mustafapaşa, but the…

5. Turasan Winery

0.35 MILES

The abundant sunshine and fertile volcanic soil of Cappadocia produce delicious sweet grapes, and several wineries carry on the Ottoman Greek winemaking…

6. Mosque

0.37 MILES

Ürgüp's mosque is an excellent landmark to get your bearings from, right in the centre of town.

7. Three Graces Fairy Chimneys

1.03 MILES

These three black-capped fairy-chimney formations (also known as 'the three beauties'), overlooking the rolling countryside just outside of town, are…

8. Pancarlı Kilise

1.83 MILES

This rarely visited 11th-century church is snuggled amid a particularly photogenic vista of orange-hued rock. The small nave has a dazzling interior of…