The landscape created by these rocks, once fortresses, refuges, temples or graves, and by the endless underground networks of tunnels and passages and enormous cisterns, is what makes this fabled geography at once so mysterious and magical.

ROCKS THAT EXUDE CULTURE
This valley, which boasts the most striking monuments of the Phrygian world, is actually a series of several valleys. Known in Antiquity as Lesser Phrygia, this mountainous strip in upper Sakarya, intersected by the provinces of Eskisehir, Afyonkarahisar and Kütahya, is a virtual civilization of rock-dwellers. Midas-Yazilikaya with its monumental Midas inscription, and the valleys of Kümbet, Köhnüs (Göynüs) and Karababa,
are one of Anatolia’s most remarkable regions for revealing the unique face of Phrygian culture, as well as the rich natural beauty of the landscape. It’s not for nothing that Lesser Phrygia was known in Greek as Phrygia Salutaris, ’healthy Phrygia’.