A Promenade in Rupestrian Landscapes of Cappadocia. Survey, Notes and New Technologies

Abstract. The theme of general interest is “the rupestrian cultural settlements”. A Heritage told in the rock, with environments often dramatic, and that’s being lost with the acceleration of disruptive events; an extensive culture in entire regions that, with the evolution of the settlement archetype of the people or the obliged abandonment of their places of origin, is -due to its size, wealth and ruin- difficult to document in its entirety. The report takes to places declared Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1985 with a different landscape: 1- Open Air Museum of Ihlara valley, the Müzekartlarımız, one of the most spectacular natural landscapes of Turkey. It’s far from the tourist clamour of Göreme, the cultural center of the Cultural Heritage. 2- The town of Ortahisar, mixed urban center, where the village built has overlapped the settlement troglodyte wall. 3- The plateau between of Göreme and Kılıçlar valleys, that preserves the urban structure of a diffused city with residential systems, defense and infrastructure. Here is still functioning water system. The landscape and urban survey of the places is made in this report with some notes on the three areas of study, investigated with different in-depth analysis. The photographic data, sometimes not necessarily meant for the promotion and enhancement of places, showing a detailed documentation of the natural and architectural tours of the valleys. The survey of the search landscape, made on an environmental scale, next to the Open Air Museum in Göreme, was made and taken out with documentation integrated techniques: 3D laser, photogrammetry and landscape photography for virtual tour 360. Different instruments, innovative and multimedia, tale the global integration of the built-excavated with the natural landscape and the wise management of land handed down. The documentation is aimed to know and preserve the memory of living in the rock, to promote the protection and enhancement of its witnesses.