Avanos

Central Anatolia, Turkey

The town center of Avanos, Cappadocia. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Avanos is Cappadocia's pottery town on the Kızılırmak, Turkey's longest river, where workshops have thrown the red river clay for millennia. The old town's stone houses and the hair museum (thousands of locks of hair in a cave gallery) are the curiosities.

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