You will visit the most popular sights with an expert local tour guide. This private tour lets you devise your own itinerary. Choose to visit Ephesus, the Temple of Artemis, and the House of the Virgin Mary; shop for traditional handicrafts; or Terrace Houses.
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Tour Highlights
1 – Meeting Point
Our Tour guide will meet you at Kusadasi Port or airport or your hotel lobby with your name sign at pre-arranged time. Pick up time will be given during your confirmation. After greeting, you will drive to Selcuk town by a private, A/C, luxurious vehicle to star our tour.Â
2 – Ancient City of Ephesus
Our first stop is Ephesus. We will see the Odeon, The Market Basilica, Curetes Street, Domitian’s, Trajan’s, Hadrian ‘s Temples, the huge Roman Bath, the Gates of Mihridates and Mazues, Commercial Agora, Latrina, the Scholastica Baths, Polio Fountain, Memnius’ Monuments, The Prytaneion, the State Agora, Celcus Library, Marble Street and visit the Great Theater of Ephesus where a mentioned in Acts Chapter 19 where a riot started against St. Paul by the merchants of Ephesus. The Grand Theater of Ephesus had a sitting capacity of 25.000 people.
3 – Temple of Artemis
Our second stop is Temple of Artemis. It’s one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world. Also known as the Temple of Diana was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis. Here there will be good chance to see and take pictures of the church of St. John and the Mosque of Isa Bey.
4 – The House of Virgin Mary
The House of the Virgin Mary (or Meryem Ana Evi in Turkish) is a place where, according to the beliefs of many people Mary, the mother of Jesus, spent the last years of her life. She was supposed to arrive at Ephesus together with St. John and lived there in the years 37-45 CE until her Assumption (according to Catholic doctrine) or Dormition (according to Orthodox belief).
Note for the House of Virgin Mary: At House of Virgin Mary, Holly Mass is held every day from Monday to Saturday at 05.15 pm(November to March ) and 06.15 pm ( April to October). The Sunday Mass is held at 10.30 am. Our guests have the option to attend the Holly Mass.
5 – Ephesus Museum
The Ephesus Museum holds the best of the archeological objects excavated at Ephesus, a few artifacts from Ephesus’s great Temple of Artemis ( the Artemision ) and finds from some of the many other significant ancient Hellenic, Hellenistic and Roman cities in the region.
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