Unrealistically cool! Epic, antique, Byzantine, ancient Roman majestic!!
Definitely worth a visit and a walk there!
Come as early as possible right for the opening! So that by noon, when the heat begins, you will reach the museum-9d cinema and cool down, relax and admire the super-modern interactive show! (Included in the price of the main ticket)
Children under 12 years old are FREE! Do not be fooled by the dilution of hotel guides!
Feel free to take a taxi and come there yourself without any excursions!
For history lovers, there are guidebooks and audio guides in Russian.
If you are vacationing near Ephesus, definitely a must-visit!!
Bring water, sunscreen, a hat and comfortable shoes!
I bought tickets for lira with a flight card.
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Ury
Level 15 Local Expert
December 12
Just a stunning experience of diving into the real history of Ancient Greece!
Ancient Ephesus impresses with its technological discoveries in the field of urban planning. Starting from the central avenue, lined with huge hundred-ton treated blocks of solid marble, at the sites of soil shedding, it can be seen that the height of these parallelepipeds is equal to the height of a person, almost 180 cm, in places the height of the treated blocks is up to 2 meters! Yes, there are smaller boulders, many of them no more than a meter high, but there is simply no less!
And the central avenue of the ancient city is laid out from this wealth! Of course, no earthquakes are beyond such an ancient road, even today it does not seem real to lay out hundred-ton blocks of marble in even rows for several kilometers, how was it done then?
And on the sides of the ancient highway, mind-blowing buildings made of granite, marble and seashell, even according to modern technologies, have been built! Several floors high, often also having underground floors made of giant monoliths, very intricate decoration patterns, they are still cool today under the scorching sun of Turkey.
All the buildings are made of huge figured monoliths, the ancient Greeks clearly did not save money on their construction, often jeweler-treated blocks are fastened with brackets made of iron, rusted, but still quite working! And historians told us that this could not be, the Bronze Age, steelmaking was invented no earlier than the middle of the 19th century, and here ancient Greece uses high-quality steels to the fullest extent, preserved through thousands of years on an industrial scale! Are historians hiding something, or are they completely holding us for fools, which is easier, to weld a complex copper alloy of three or more components, or to learn how to simply restore iron from ore and alloy it with microdoses of other metals? Maybe they were the first to learn how to cook steel, and only then switched to smelting bronze??
Ephesus technologies are still striking, especially urban communications and their good preservation after all the past millennia and earthquakes.
The sewer is lined with baked clay cones, the water supply is made of metal, tin or lead pipes, everything is well thought out, the lowest occurrence is at the sewer mains, above the water pipes, above them large multi-storey houses made of huge blocks of valuable marble and granite, decorated with architectural details of the same cast marble and shell stone, it is even impossible to imagine imagine how much work and time it took to create all this intricate decoration, hammering out the monoliths manually with chisels and sledgehammers... Or not by hand, but by industrial castings from cast shell and marble??
In any case, the construction technologies of Ephesus are amazing today!
And the artistic value of his sculptures and building facade decoration elements is simply indescribable in words!
And this splendor has stood for thousands of years in the open air and has reached us in almost pristine form!
I refuse to understand how ancient people could even drag such a number of giant monoliths of diabase and marble, how did these colossuses manage to put into beautiful buildings with the highest precision, all this by the hands and forces of some gigantic slaves, as historians tell us?
Yes, any modern foreman will clearly explain to you that even today, with all our construction and transport vehicles, it is simply not realistic to repeat at least a dozen meters of this mind-blowing ancient road with buildings on its sides, and even clearly planned and well-standardized infrastructure under them! Bravo, Ancient Greece, we applaud you, ancient Ephesus, whose history is so ancient that even the Biblical events of the New Testament that took place here, the residence of the Mother of God herself with her Apostles who escaped from persecution of Jews and Gentiles, the visits of the Apostles Peter and Paul, Luke, John the Theologian and John the Ladder, seem to have happened quite recently!
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328468 Воронина
Level 15 Local Expert
June 29
An interesting historical place. It can be reached from Marmaris in 3 hours. There are a lot of tourist groups in summer, mostly foreigners. The entrance ticket to Ephesus itself is 4500 rubles.
An interactive museum was also built a few years ago. The only thing is, walking under the scorching sun is a little difficult. But if you are on the Aegean coast, this place should be visited.