Urban exploration

The underground city of Saint Mercurius, located in the Saratlı village of the Central Anatolian province of Aksaray, is famous for its 40 living spaces such as its church, mass graves, water wells, floor furnaces, pigeon houses, cellars and warehouse roofs.

An underground city, which was discovered in central Anatolia four years ago and dubbed the world’s largest underground city, will partially open to tourism this summer

Thieves stole wine reportedly worth more than €250,000 (£230,000) after burrowing into a private cellar from the catacombs 20 metres below Paris, reported The Guardian.

Police say more than 300 bottles of vintage wine were carried out through the underground network, which comprises more than 150 miles (250km) of tunnels running beneath the city.

An underground city found in Turkey's touristic Cappadocia will "rewrite the history of the city," according to the mayor in the Central Anatolian Nev?ehir province, adding they had discovered people had permanently lived in the underground city, unlike other cities which were mostly carved into rocks for temporary protection.

A 3,000-year-old underground city that was discovered in 1988 in the northern province of Bayburt needs attention to attract more tourists A trip to Cappadocia is rarely complete without a descent into the underground city of Derinkuyu.

A massive underground city, which was discovered last year in the central Anatolian province of Nev?ehir and was the year's biggest archaeological discovery, is being cleaned with a geo-radar machine.

A massive underground city, which was discovered last year in the central Anatolian province of Nev?ehir and was the year's biggest archaeological discovery, is being cleaned with a geo-radar machine.

With 2014 soon coming to an end, potentially the year’s biggest archeological discovery of an underground city has come from Turkey’s Central Anatolian province of Nevşehir, which is known world-wide for its Fairy Chimneys rock formation.