Less Walking Private Ephesus, The House of Virgin Mary, Artemission Temple - Skip Lines

Name: Less Walking Private Ephesus, The House of Virgin Mary, Artemission Temple - Skip Lines
Brand: Tabl
SKU: 579G55
Price: 113.00 GBP
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Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)

5 hours

Group

English

What you’ll do

Less Walking Tour in Ephesus - The House of Virgin Mary and Artemission Temple . Private for your family & friends Meeting point is Kusadasi Cruise Terminal. Our guide will have Your Name sign at the port. You will walk 100 meters from your cruise to meeting point. After you pass through the custom, you will see your name sign just in front of you. our Private Ephesus tour includes private guiding and transportation are included. Our private tour gives you the flexibility to spend how much time you want on each site. Your tour guide will have a pre-paid ticket to skip the lines. • Private Tour for your family and friends • You will decide on departure time • Our tour guide will meet you at the Port/Hotel with your name sign, • Our professional tour guide will be with you from arrival till departure, • You will have flexibilty to spend how much time you want in each site and customize the itinerary, • You do not have to wait for other group members • You may stop to have pictures during your tour.

Itinerary

Your private guide will meet you at Kusadasi hotel / Kusadasi Port at pre-arranged time. Pick up time will be given during your confirmation.

After greeting, we will have a 20 mins drive to Ephesus area. We will start visiting one of the main highlights in Turkey, Ephesus, one of the 12 cities of Ionian League (an ancient Greek district on the western coast of Asia Minor) located near Izmir. As a port city it was a major departure point for trade routes into Asia Minor.

Walk through history along marble streets lined with wonderful public buildings, among them the Baths of Scholastica, the Library of Celsus; it was built in the beginning of the 2nd century A.D. by Gaius Julius Aquila to be a memorial to his father Gaius Julius Celsus Polemanus, the proconsul of Province of Asia. , the Temple of Hadrian and The Grand Theater are two of the most impressive buildings in Ephesus. Grand theatre was built in the 3rd century B.C and it was later expanded to 24.000 spectators by the Romans in the 1st century A.D.

Drive back to Kusadasi city center and to port after the tour.

Less Walking Tour in Ephesus - Private for your family & friends

Your private guide will meet you at Kusadasi Port at pre-arranged time. Pick up time will be given during your confirmation.

After greeting we will have 20 minutes drive to Our first stop The House of Virgin Mary wgere is located on the Aladag Mountains 5 miles away from Ephesus. At the third Ecumenical Council on 431 AD in Ephesus, it was claimed that Mary came to Ephesus with St. John in 37 A.D. and lived there until her death in 48 A.D. After the discovery of the house, the Archbishop of Izmir declared there as a place of pilgrimage in 1892. On July 26, 1967, Pope Paul VI visited this place and prayed there.

Second stop is Ancient city of Ephesus is one of the largest open air museums in the World and it involvesmore than 1,5 kilometers walking. This itinerary is fully customized for people who want to see Ephesus with less walking and it takes apprx. 300 meters of walking in the ancient city.After we enter the Ancient City of Ephesus, we are going to see and visit the Roman Bath, Bouleuterion, Prytaneion, State Agora and Water Palace, then we will see the public section of Ephesus from the distance from the observation deck. We will then continue walking back to the gate and exit from the Ephesus.

We will stop close to Artemis Temple where used to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world as our last stop before drive back to your Kusadasi town center and port for last minute shoping