Price 45 Euro per person

Includes
* Entrance fees to the ancient sites & museums
* Pick up and drop off to the hotel
* Professional English speaking tour guides
* Lunch

Itinerary
Around 09:00 you will be picked up from your
hotel and we first visit the world famous Temple of Artemis and then ruins o Ephesus, After the lunch we will visit the house of Virgin Mary according to your request
we can either transfer you back to your hotel or
drop you off at the Down town
17:00 Approx.. time for the tour ending.
You can see the pictures and the information’s about the places you will visit today.

About the sites you'll see today
* Ephesus is one of the best preserved cities from Roman times. At the time St. Paul lived in Ephesus in the 60's AD, it was at it's Roman heyday with a population around 250,000. Ephesus was a great ancient city and much of it has been preserved for you to see. More than any other site, you can walk the streets, stand in the great theatre, wander in the library, see the ancient Roman toilets and baths, and feel that you are walking back into ancient history.
* The House of The Virgin Mary is where it is believed St. Mary came to live with St. John in the last years of her life.

* Temple of Artemis was the Greek goddess, the virginal huntress and twin of Apollo, who supplanted the Titan Selene as Goddess of the Moon. Of the Olympian goddesses who inherited aspects of the Great Goddess of Crete, Athene was more honored than Artemis at Athens. At Ephesus, a goddess whom the Greeks associated with Artemis was passionately venerated in an archaic, certainly pre-Hellenic cult image[1] that was carved of wood, and kept decorated with jewelry.

About Ephesus

Ephesus formed a focal point in the ancient world because of its protected harbor and as a starting point for the Royal Road via Sardis to Susa. It was also a cult center attracting thousands of pilgrims for traditional worship of the female, first Cybele, then Artemis and finally the Virgin Mary. Ephesus was also home for the early philosopher Heraclitus.

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