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EPHESSUS TOUR Departs from Kusadasi / SELCUK		Tour Includes :
EPHESSUS TOUR Departs from Kusadasi / SELCUK			Proffessional English Speaking Guide
	Pick Up From Hotel		All Admission Fees
	Visit the Temple of Artemis		Lunch
	The Ruins Of Ephessus		Air-Conditioned Transport
	Lunch		Opertes All Year, Everyday. Guaranteed
	The House of The Virgin Mary		Departure
	Return the Hotel		(Price : 50$)

Ephessus

Ephessus 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 Ana1dtolian 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 ephessus 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 Ephessus 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...

House of Virgin Mary

In 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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