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Kayaköy village is said to have more than 10 chapels and 2 big churches. This chapel is situated on the hill overlooking the village from the West.

(For a view from the hill, please see the previous shot).

from Wikipedia:

Kayaköy is the Turkish name given to Levissi, a village 8 km south of Fethiye in southwestern Turkey where Anatolian Greeks lived until approximately 1923. The ghost town, now preserved as a museum village, consists of hundreds of rundown but still mostly intact Greek-style houses and churches which cover a small mountainside and serve as a stopping place for tourists visiting Fethiye and nearby Ölüdeniz.

It was built on the site of the ancient city of Carmylessus in the 1700s. It experienced a renewal after nearby Fethiye (known as Makri) was devastated by an earthquake in 1856 and a major fire in 1885. After the Greco-Turkish War, Kayaköy was largely abandoned after a population exchange agreement was signed by the Turkish and Greek governments in 1923.

Its population in 1900 was about 2,000, almost all Greek Christians, however it is now empty except for tour groups and roadside vendors selling handmade goods and scavenged items from the former village.

It is presumed to be the inspiration behind "Eskişehir", the imaginary village that Louis de Bernieres chose for the setting of his latest novel, "Birds Without Wings".