Greek Island Cruise, Kusadasi (for Ephesus), Turkey
Ephesus is an ancient city in Turkey’s Central Aegean region, near modern-day Selçuk.
Ephesus Ancient City: Acarlar, Efes Harabeleri, 35920 Selçuk/İzmir, Turkey
Its excavated remains reflect centuries of history, from classical Greece to the Roman Empire – when it was the Mediterranean’s main commercial center – to the spread of Christianity. Paved streets wind past squares, baths and monumental ruins.
History of Ephesus
The opposite side
Looking back
Looking at the left side
Looking at the right side
Looking bak
Walking down on the right side
The Temple of Hadrian was built before 138 A.D. for Emperor Hadrian’s visit.
Looking back
Moving forward
Library of Celsus
The building was commissioned in the years 110s CE by a consul of the Roman Republic, Gaius Julius Aquila, as a funerary monument for his father, Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus, former proconsul of Asia, and completed during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, sometime after Aquila’s death.
The Library of Celsus is considered an architectural marvel and is one of the only remaining examples of great libraries of the ancient world located in the Roman Empire. It was the third-largest library in the Greco-Roman world, behind only those of Alexandria and Pergamum, and believed to have held around 12,000 scrolls.
Keep walking the trail
A spanning view
The Great Theater
Looking back at the Great Theater
The ‘Theatre Gymnasium’
As I was driving back from Ephesus to the port at Kusadasi, this picture was taken at a hill looking over the cruise ship.
The Kusadasi port city
Kusadasi Castle
