DAY 2: IZMIR > EPHESUS • ISTANBUL

• Ephesus Museum

  5 hoursAdmission Ticket Not Included

  After breakfast, an hour’s drive will take you to another ancient city, Ephesus. You will once again walk through the ages. This tour of the Roman capital of Asia Minor includes the Odeon, the Marble Street, the Hadrian Temple, the Celcius Library, and the Great Theatre. Admission fee: 200 TRY/ per person

• The Odeion

  2 hoursAdmission Ticket Not Included

  Built in 150 BC by Publis Vedius Antonius, a rich Ephesus, the Odeion is a theater-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 theater performances. It is understood that his orchestra was closed above the lack of grooves to flow the rain water.

• Temple of Hadrian

  1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Not Included

  A temple-like monument, known as the Temple of Hadrian, stands in front of the Scholastica Baths, facing the Curetes Street. When it was discovered 1956 and subsequently re-erected in the following two years, it was commonly assumed that it really was the Temple of Emperor Hadrian, a "neocorate temple" of official worship of the Roman emperor. The permission to build such a temple in Ephesus was granted by Hadrian between 130 and 132 CE, and the archaeologists eagerly identified the building on Curetes Street as such.

• Meryemana (The Virgin Mary's House)

  1 hours 30 minsAdmission Ticket Not Included

  This Christian and Muslim shrine is located in the vicinity of Ephesus; and it is believed by many that Virgin Mary, was taken to this stone house by Saint John and lived there. Admission fee: 30 TRY/ per person