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No. 01 · Cappadocia
The stoneremembers.
A journal of hotels with a long past. Four addresses, one region.
Move the light38°37′ N · 34°54′ E
A house is worth the journey when it lived before the hotel.
We keep only the houses worth a night’s detour. Four, for the whole of Cappadocia.
Each one is studied, then told through what it was before us: a church, a monastery, a village, a rock.
AlcoveHow we choose
The Collection · Chapter I
Cappadocia, Turkey · Four houses
I · The church
Sacred House
Ürgüp
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II · The monastery
Gamirasu
Ayvalı, near Ürgüp
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III · The village
Esbelli Evi
Esbelli, Ürgüp
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IV · The rock
Yunak Evleri
Yunak quarter, Ürgüp
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Chapter IITo comeIn preparation
Cappadocian landscapes: royalty-free photographs. Each house shows itself on its own page, in its own pictures.
I
The church
Sacred House →A Greek house some two hundred and fifty years old, for a time a church, where each room has a story of its own.
II
The monastery
Gamirasu →A Byzantine retreat and its 11th-century church, in a valley inhabited since prehistory.
III
The village
Esbelli Evi →A first cave house bought in 1987, opened in 1990, then its neighbours, one by one, over thirty years.
IV
The rock
Yunak Evleri →Ten houses hollowed out of the cliff in the 5th and 6th centuries, and a 19th-century Greek mansion at their foot.
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The new houses and the stories that come with them. Nothing else.
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