Does rising higher in the sky mean moving away from history? Do the churches, the stories hidden in caves, and the fears disappear and fade away? You don’t move away from history as you rise above Cappadocia; you only gain a different distance from it. As the balloon ascends, the underground world may look as if it is fading, but in reality it becomes a more complete whole. Churches, caves, and tunnels are not escapes hidden beneath the earth, but architectures of survival. H