CAPPADOCIA VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

Europeans discovered the Cappadocia, at around the beginning of the 18th century. Paul Lucas, who was sent by the French King Louis XIV in 1704, stated that he saw many strange pyramid like houses near the Red River (the ancient Halys) and that these houses had conspicuous entrances and stairs and big windows to light all the rooms.  He likened the Angels' Chimneys  to "monks with hoods" and the rocks on Angels' Chimneys  to busts of  "Mother Mary holding Baby Jesus". He thought that these interesting rock-cut houses were the ones of the Christian monks. In his engraving, the tops of the serial conical shaped Angels' Chimneys  were depicted, in an exaggerated way, as the busts of people and animals.  In 1719 when Lukas examined Cappadocia again, he decided that they were actually tombs and the region was the graveyard which served Caesarea (modern Kayseri).