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Nevsehir Culture Route Festival is continuing with exhibitions that bring together traditional Anatolian weaving, Islamic calligraphy, Ottoman sacred relics and contemporary installations, while workshops and cultural programs draw visitors across the city.
Organized by Türkiye's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the festival began over the weekend and will run through Aug. 9 with concerts, exhibitions, talks, workshops, culinary venues and activities for children.
At Cappadocia University's Urgup Factory Campus, visitors can explore traditional carpets dating from the Seljuk period to the present day alongside examples of hat, the traditional art of Islamic calligraphy.
Fatma Turgut, a ministry-recognized bearer of intangible cultural heritage, said the exhibition and workshops introduce visitors to Anatolia's long-standing carpet traditions.
Turgut explained that carpets from the Nevsehir region were traditionally colored with natural root dyes, with red, green and brown tones standing out across many of the pieces.
"Our duty is to pass them on to the future," she said.
At the Guray Museum in Avanos, the "Ottoman Sacred Relics" exhibition brings together selected sacred objects from the Ottoman period.
The venue is also hosting "The Decrepit Structures of a Dystopian Universe," an exhibition that sets out humanity's story through a series of miniature universes.
Visitor Murat Saltik said he had joined events at several locations with his family and had particularly wanted to see the sacred relics exhibition. Having previously completed Umrah, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that can be undertaken outside the annual Hajj season, Saltik said seeing a covering from the Kaaba left a powerful impression on him.
Another visitor, Yagiz Ilkturk, said he had looked through several exhibitions and was especially affected by the section displaying sacred relics.
The festival will continue welcoming visitors across Nevsehir until Aug. 9.
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