Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell Pits located near Silifke Narlıkuyu or Pothole Heaven and Hell are known as Heaven and Hell Caves.
 
PARADİSE PİT
The result of the collapse of the ceiling of an underground stream to cause the chemical erosion is a huge pit has occurred. The mouth of the elliptical diameter of 250 m. and 110 m. The depth is 70 meters. At the southern end of the pit base 200 m. long and its deepest point is 135 m. There is a large cave entrance and a small church at the mouth of this cave is.
The inscription on the church gate 4 lines, by a pious person named Paulus is written in the fifth century this church to be built dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Each sunk into heaven descended quite a wide stone staircase of 452 steps. The church is reached in step 300. The sound of a mythological underground river in the cave next to the church is the end point.

PIT  of HELL
Heaven sunk 75 m. north of the pit of Hell was formed as a hollow heaven. Rim diameter of 50 m and 75 m, and a depth of 128 meters. Edges because it is not possible to go down into the concave.
According to mythology; Zeus, after beating in a fight face-headed dragon spewing flames Typhon here that has imprisoned him under Mount Etna in a time before closing the pit of Hell forever.