The place Ayazini (also Ayazin, in Byzantine time Metropolis) lies in a valley running from southwest to northeast, which exhibits a tufa landscape, which is crossed by rock churches and - dwellings in the kind of the Cappadocian cave buildings.
The most important sacred building is a Byzantine cross-domed church at the entrance to today's village of the same name. It has a barrel vault, a row of six (demolished) columns and a baptistery reaching further into the rock.
It is noteworthy that the main and secondary apse as well as a part of the dome are not only worked into the stone from the inside, but are also modelled on the outside.

Further along the valley there are smaller chapels, a larger residential and monastery complex in a side valley and rock tombs of Roman origin. Some of these graves are located above the Islamic cemetery, including the grave with the Ionic columns, which contains ten niche graves on two floors. The tomb was converted into a church in Byzantine times. In another tomb there is a relief with two lions.

At the end of the village a small road turns left. After passing a narrow gorge with a single-lane road, the landscape widens until a striking rock formation, Avdalaz Castle (Turkish: Avdalaz Kalesi), can be seen.

Avdalaz Kalesi

Avdalaz Kalesi was founded during the Byzantine period and served as a residential and defensive complex. This type of hollowed out tuff rock is reminiscent of the residential rocks in Cappadocia. Such rock formations can be found again and again in ancient Phrygia.