Guides Selcuk-Efes
Guides Selcuk-Efes
Land & People Geography & Current Situation trip to Selcuk offered at Efes is a Byzantine citadel dominated. Over the grave of the apostle John was in the 6th Century, a basilica built. In the “Hamam” museum in an old bath house can genre pictures and traditional bathing utensils visited. The great portal for its famous Seljuk Isa Bey Mosque comes from the 14 Century Archaeological Museum notable finds from the excavations in Ephesus and the surrounding area. Recently, an ethnographic department attached. The apostle John, the Virgin Mary after the crucifixion of her son Jesus to Ephesus, where she lives evening in a small house (Meryem Ananin evi) on the Bülbül-dagi (Koressos) has spent, which is now a vielbesuchte Andachts and place of pilgrimage for both Christians and for Muslims and the Vatican is a saint. Christians celebrate every year on 15 August a commemorative exhibition.
In Camlik in Selcuk, in an open-air museum old steam locomotives and three large saloon car Turkish personalities.
Sirince, famous for its peaches and grapes, is situated 8 km east of Selcuk in a hilly terrain and, with its houses from the 19th Century, several of which to heimelnden to guesthouses, hotels and restaurants were converted to an open-air museum of civil architecture and also lovers of a good drop of a term. In the old wine cellars and houses can try delicious local wines. On the hill stands a church ruins, another church in the village is currently being renovated.
A visit by Efes (Ephesus), a splendid ancient trade and port city, is one of the highlights of each stay in Turkey. In the years since at least 5000 populated area, including IONIANS, Lyder, Persians and the confusion Cimmerians immense devastation served.
To turn the time and under the Romans began the glorious ascent of Ephesus. Several earthquakes and particularly the increasing Verlandung the port sealed the demise of the city, in the first half of the sixth century by the last residents to leave. 1090, the Seljuk in the region to power. The city with its magnificent buildings was dedicated to the goddess Artemis. For the Ephesians was Artemis, incidentally, not the hunting goddess, but the goddess of fertility.
The monumental, several times Artemis newly built temple in his last dated form from the 3rd Century BC and was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. A theatre, a gymnasium, swimming pools, Agora, sanitation and marble streets and the Celsus Library (from an underground passage into Freudenhaus led) to impress visitors with their beauty. In the city are also the remains of the St. Mary’s Church, the first of the seven churches of the Apocalypse, in the 431 for the Christian church history extremely important III. Ecumenical Council took place. Every year in Efes international folklore and music festival organized.
Ephesus / Selcuk, Turkey
Ephesus / Selçuk, Turkey
The ruins of Ephesus are located about three kilometers away from the current Selçuk, the successor of Ephesus. Throughout its history, the citizens of Ephesus relocated several times. A total of four new Ephesus was founded and built:
The first foundation was probably over 3,000 years, about 1,000 BC The first Ephesus was built on a slope and grew up until 3 Century BC to a thriving cities.
After Ephesus on the banks of the bay relocated. Once this was on grounds of the Temple of Artemis (Artemision) - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
But the Artemision gradually sank in the mud. In the marshy area, we now have a single column. Some other excavated pieces can be found in the Museum of Selçuk visit.
Subsequently, the still-preserved ruins of Ephesus city was built. The excavated ruins of Ephesus are among the most ancient structures in the world. They come from the period between 300 BC and the 5th Century. Ephesus experienced during this time as capital of the province of Asia in the Roman Empire grßte their bloom. Several buildings in the Hellenistic-Roman Ephesus have been uncovered. These include, for example, the spa, the Agora (market place in the city centre), several temples, the Celsusbibliothek, the great theatre and several residential houses. Ephesus was a port city. The ancient road to the former port can still street. Since it is written in Ephesus so many buildings to visit, you should for the trip at least a full day schedule.
Tip: For this long walk through the ruins should be enough to drink with them.
Finally, Ephesus because of the increasing silting of the port abandoned and today’s Selçuk. In Selçuk is the museum, where many pieces excavated from the ruins of Ephesus are exhibited. In Selçuk there are also several monuments such as the St. John Church from the 6th Century, Isa-Bey Mosque from the 14th Century and the House of the Virgin Mary.
The center of Priene was the market place, the so-called Agora. To the Agora were several temples, the town hall and other important buildings in the city was built.
Priene is a relatively well-preserved ancient city. Towards the end of the 19th Century were many of the old buildings of Priene uncovered, so that the visitor here a very interesting insight into the public life of an ancient Greek city.
