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EPHESUS
TOUR
Departs from Kusadasi / SELCUK
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Tour
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Proffessional
English Speaking Guide |
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Pick
Up From Hotel |
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All
Admission Fees |
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Visit
the Temple of Artemis |
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Lunch |
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The
Ruins Of Ephessus |
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Air-Conditioned
Transport |
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Lunch |
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Opertes
All Year, Everyday. Guaranteed |
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The
House of The Virgin Mary |
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Departure |
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Return
the Hotel |
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(Price
: 50$) |
 Ephesus
a Step Back to Roman Times
The original had 127
columns, each one nearly 60 feet high (18 metres). Throughhout
Asia Minor, lonic temples were usually sited on low
ground to display their tall slender columns. Broader
squatter Dric columns, on the other hand needed a higher
position to be visually effective. Artemis of the Ephesians
was a Greek adaptation of Cybele, the Anatolia
earth-mother goddess, whose outstanding quality was
her fertility. On her annual feast day, great orgies
took pleace here. When the Romans arrived, they identified
her with Diana, their own fertility goddess, and the
cult continued for more than a thousandyears, conferring
great wealth on the city as devotees flocked to it from
all over the world. The down fall of the goddess came
with the advent of christianitiy. The ephesus
ancient gate approach road takes you past the ruins
of a vast Roman gymnasium and stadium. When you head
straigiht to the intersection of the marble street and
Arcadian Way, you can climb the steps of the theatr
for some of the best views of the site. The Arcadian
Way used to lead straigiht down to the harbour and was
lined with sops and porticoes; even as ealy as 400 BC
it had street lighting. It was here that Cleopatra made
her triumphal entry into Ephesus
to visit Mark Anthony... On the Marble Street you can
see the ruths made by the chariot whells on the Library
of Celsus as which is the best preserved structure of
its kind in the world. From the library, the impressive
Curettes Street snakes up the hill to the Magnessian
Gate. To the right are expensive villas and to the left
are various public buildings. On the way to Magnesian
Gate, the Temple of Hadrian, the public toileds, the
Roman Bath of Scolastica with the adjacent brothel can
be seen. Ad the end of the road, you reach the Odedion,
the State Building and the upper Agora; with the market
pleace on the right hand side... |
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House
of Virgin Mary
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the forested hills 5 miles (8 km) from Ephessus
lies the house / chapel known as Meryemana, where
the Virgin Mary is said to have lived out her
last days. The ruins of the house, along with
a spring were discovered in the 19th century after
a disabled German lady, for years confined to
her bed, and who had never set foot in Turkey,
describes its exact location as revealed to her
in a vision. A priest from. Izmir (the bishop
of St. Polycarp's church in Symrna) read her description
and in 1981 set out to find the house. It is now
a destination for pilgrims from all over the world.
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