Izmir Shore Excursion

Tour Program

Pick-up from Izmir/Kusadası Port with the private A/C car

Meeting with the guide

Drive to the first highlight

Visiting the areas in the plan

Drop-off to the Izmir/Kusadası Port

Tour Highlights

The Virgin Mary House: This place was discovered by Lazarist priests. It is accepted that 4 or 6 years after the death of Jesus, St. John brought the Virgin Mary to Ephesus and this was the last destination of the Virgin Mary.

Temple of Artemis: Temple of Artemis is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It was dedicated to the Goddess Artemis and only 2 marbles have survived from the temple.

The Odeon: Built in 150 BC by Publis Vedius Antonius, a rich Ephesus, the Odeion is a theatre-shaped building. The hall was 1400 people. Considering the prytaneion and the state agora in front of it, we can say that it was used as a city council as well as theatre performances.

Fountain of Trajan: Built in around 104 C.E, it is one of the finest monuments in Ephesus. It was constructed in the honor of Emperor Trajan, and the statue of Trajan stood in the central niche on the facade overlooking the pool.

The Temple of Artemis: The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis. It was located in Ephesus. By 401 AD it had been ruined or destroyed. Only foundations and fragments of the last temple remain at the site.

Library of Celsus: The building was commissioned in the 110s A.D. by a consul, Gaius Julius Aquila, as a funerary monument for his father, former proconsul of Asia Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, and completed during the reign of Hadrian, sometime after Aquila's death.

The Great Theatre: The great theatre of Ephesus is a splendidly preserved and very impressive building. This structure, built of marble, has a width of 145 meters, and its audience once reached up to 30 meters. In its heyday, it could accommodate up to 24,000 spectators.

The Roman Baths: Its construction is believed to have taken place during the second century A.D., while the mosaics in the 40 meters hall should be added in the fifth century.

The Gymnasium: The construction of the gymnasium dates back around the second century AD, funded by Publius Vedius Antoninus and his wife Flavia Papiana. They dedicated the gymnasium to Goddess Artemis and Emperor Antoninus Pius.

Basilica of St. John: It was constructed by Justinian I in the 6th century. It stands over the believed burial site of John the Apostle. It was modelled after the now lost Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.

The Terrace Houses: In the classical period (from the 6th to the 4th century BC), the area was used as a graveyard. Three terraces were established around 200 BC on the slope of the latter Terrace Houses, by using massive stone walls.

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