On our Ephesus Tour, we will discover the ancient city of Ephesus. One of the most important centers of civilization, culture, science, and art.
Every year, approximately 1.5 million people visited the excavations in the ancient city of Ephesus on the Ephesus Tour in Turkey’s most beautiful ancient cities are located in more than 100 years continues.
Celsus Library, Slope Houses, Antique Theater, King’s Road and numerous archaeological sites. Each of which is a magnificent architectural masterpiece, are the most attractive buildings in Ephesus.
The ancient city of Ephesus (Ephesos) takes you on an unforgettable journey through history. Eetched on minds as the home of the Blessed Virgin Mary, stretching back to the Neolithic period and inhabited in the greatest period of the Roman Empire.
This ancient city was valued for a long time as a harbour town, and due to the excavations which have uncovered new sections and artefacts every year. The city continues to surprise its visitors and to maintain its historical value. Many famous classical philosophers, who are still read today, such as Heraclitus, lived in the scientific, artistic and cultural city of Ephesus.
According to legend, the Ionian prince Androclos founded Ephesus in the eleventh century B.C. The legend says that as Androclos searched for a new Greek settlement, he turned to the Delphi oracles for guidance. The oracles told him a boar and a fish would show him the new location.
This enclosure for archaeological remains at Ephesus elegantly reconciles historic conservation with accessibility for visitors. The site of a succession of great ancient civilizations. Ephesus, on the south-west coast of modern Turkey, embodied a peculiarly fertile synthesis of architecture and culture. In 356BC the Greeks built the Artemesium (a colossal Ionic temple dedicated to Artemis the fertility goddess). Which was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. During the 2nd century BC, Ephesus was the fourth largest city in the eastern Roman Empire, famous for its Artemesium, the Library of Celsus and its medical school.
Ephesus; Ancient Greek city of Asia Minor, near the mouth of the Menderes River, in what is today West Turkey, South of Smyrna (now Izmir). One of the greatest of the Ionian cities, it became the leading seaport of the region. Its wealth was proverbial. The Greek city was near an old center of worship of a native nature goddess. To this Croesus, who captured the city, contributed.
Activity level: Light
Tour Type: Regular Basis - Small Group. Max 8
