The caves aren’t for the claustrophobic, but they’re well worth the trouble. Several levels and floors hold everything from ancient indoor churches and wineries to bedrooms and kitchens.

At Argos, a legendary cave hotel cited by National Geographic as one of the 250 must-see places in the world, a new restaurant is serving up speciality dishes from Cappadocia’s Nevşehir province.

But that is only a fraction of the site’s estimated 900,000-square-metre area, which would make it the largest underground city in Turkey’s southern Anatolia region.

This otherworldly landscape of “fairy chimneys” has been home to cave-dwelling people for centuries. The best way to experience its beauty and history is on foot.

If my hotel doesn’t let me sleep in an ancient cave once used to house early Christians escaping the Roman Empire, I do not want to stay there.

Cappadocia is an upside-down world: its cities are subterranean, while its overground landscape is like the interior of a cave system, covered in stalagmite-like rock pillars known as fairy chimneys.

Turkey is also famous for its ancient cave villages in Cappadocia in the centre of the country.

The Museum Hotel, in Cappadocia a historic region in Turkey, was created out of thousand-year-old cave dwellings. It took four years of excavating and renovating before the hotel was operational.

Argos in Cappadocia bills itself as “an ancient village with a reception desk.” That’s partly true. It occupies a medieval monastery that was carved into the soft volcanic land, and some of ...