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.