One of the most spectacular sights to the south of Ürgüp - Soganli valley is named in honor of her lying in the center of the eponymous village, five kilometers west of the road from Ürgüp in Eshilhisar.

Soganli Valley is located twenty-five kilometers from the underground city of Derinkuyu, which can be seen carved into the tuff ensemble of buildings, such as those located in Goreme - open-air museum. Near the village there is a place where locals bred pigeons. When working on a reconstruction of the original appearance of the area were discovered Christian churches, which lie on both sides of the creek.

Even before the XIII century, from the early Byzantine period, the valley was inhabited. Soganli in Turkish means "with a bow," but there is another hypothesis, if the name of the valley comes from the phrase sona kaldi (stayed to the end). This theory stems from the fact that the latter was the Soganli valley in Cappadocia, to which the Arab invaders led by Ghazi Batal reached in the 6th century. Now the valley is also located away from the main roads. It attracts travelers and tourists of its isolation from the rest of the world

The village comprises two settlements - Yukari upper-and lower Soganli Soganli-Ashagi. Yukari-Soganli village located on a rocky promontory, divided into two parts valley. A walking trail that crosses a stream originates from the local area and leads up the hill through the village. Walking along this path you can come to a hidden church with frescoes, which depict the apostles, and after a hundred meters to come to Kubbeli Kilis or church with a dome.

This church is in two parts at different levels. At the entrance there are three portal. Further, the church is divided by two rows of pylons and pilasters into three naves and is equipped with benches. In the depths of the center and side aisles are arranged vaulted chapels with altars. The upper floor has a more complicated plan: two parallel long chapels are adjacent and provided with porches. A small apse with a porch that covers the dome can be seen in the chapel of the right and the left is the chapel altar. It is located near the back wall. Porch overlooking the square itself to both Capello to the lobby and to the interior. It seems that this church was built inside a huge "mushroom", and his "hat" became the dome.

No less interesting is the Church of the Serpent and its interior decoration, which you can see only with a flashlight. The most popular and famous in Cappadocia religious subjects is St. George slaying the dragon. His image is on the left of the entrance. It should also look to the church black heads on the walls of which are preserved frescoes with episodes from the life of Christ and the saints, the various religious symbols, but at the same time at some frescoes depicted nontraditional subjects related to the ancient cults. Part of the building is destroyed and has not survived to the present day. The church has room for worship, connected to each other.

One should visit the Church of the Predator, which received its name from the frescoes depicted next to St. John the beast of prey. In the church there are two rooms: one is the altar with burial niches in the walls; second space has a square shape and is adjacent to the first.

Church of St. Barbara also consists of two adjacent churches. It is badly damaged, but found that two parallel premises were almost the same, but with different proportions. The image of St. Barbara, after whom is named the whole ensemble, able to identify the fragments of frescoes.

The temple, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, located in the valley. Almost all the walls of the church izrisoval frescoes. In some places the bottom layer is visible, which suffered more primitive image and not as colorful.

The church is dedicated to St. Yilanly. George. Above the entrance hangs a sign that says that it is very many years. On its large number of frescoes depicting St. John, the Twelve Apostles and other biblical scenes. On the walls of most of the churches, it made a lot of labels, mainly in Greek, some of which date back to the XIX century. There were no vandalism here: tourists and Turks, all the walls are scribbled their names blotted out of the frescoes.

The following churches are already at the top of the valley. Particularly interesting for the church blast. It is a full-fledged temple with columns in two floors. The ground floor is used for farming, and by the upper church. It is a maze with lots of stairs ends abruptly, a couple of exits leading nowhere, and small rooms. Create some semblance of an anthill. Many here also clandestine graves. Status of the monastery gradually deteriorating in some places falls through the floor. Murals are almost no walls, mostly covered with simple geometric designs.