"Caesarea or Kayseri 6000 years old city " a Kayseri Travel Page by traveloturc

Kayseri, known as Caesarea in Roman times is situated in the West of Cappadocia, known as The city is in the foot of and old volcano Mt. Erciyes (3,916 meters).This is also a silk road city. Caeserea was also an important city of Christianity in the early years of Byzantine This is a 6000 years city .Empire. In the North of Kayseri, Kültepe, known as Kanesh or Karum, was one of the earliest Assyrian and Hittite commercial cities Dating from 2000 B.C, Kültepe was also one of the world's first cities of free trade. Today, Many of the findings can be examined in the Kayseri Archaeological Museum .Kayseri is one of the most important carpet and kilim production centers in Anatolia. Bünyan is the most famous carpet production center and Yahyali is the most famous kilim production center.

Kayseri is also well known with the production of hand made rugs
specially the carpets of bunyan and the kilims of develi are very prescious