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We travel to Turkey, an ancient town that was once a stunning Ionian city, now in ruins. Located on the Aegean Sea, a strategic location that allowed the consolidation of an important cultural and commercial center in the ruins of Ephesus can intuit the impressive buildings of a wonderful city, including the facade of which was the oldest library in the world.

Ephesus is located north of Panayr, and was a major port city at the mouth of the river Cayster, with a town at the foot of Mount Pion and Mt Cores. Thanks to the remnants of the ancient city, Ephesus, is a major tourist attraction on the coast, especially for the many cruise ships that travel the area of Greece and Turkey, including a stop to tour the ruins.

Ephesus was founded as a Greek city in the eleventh century BC. The city is legendary, endured in Roman times, although permanent conflicts that left her in permanent sequelae most emblematic buildings. His fourth quarter, after more than twenty centuries, came to the 1,300, but his legacy remains preserved architectural wonders such as some believed, was the oldest library in the world, today visible only with its facade.

Huge theater with capacity for 24,500 spectators, as the temples of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World of maintaining their ground and only a column of 20 meters in height, of the over 120 that supported the structure, churches, and stadiums, are among the ruins to discover.

Ephesus is a must for all cruising through the area, starting from the port of Kusadasi, about 20 miles. The ancient ruins of Ephesus are in a constant state of exploration and excavations constantly being discovered where new memories of its heyday.

Turkey is one of those destinations that have been chosen for a short vacation, a destination is usually quite affordable at the same time unknown, and provides for much more than a short vacation.

We can find many ruins of ancient temples, castles and fortresses of ancient settlements and remains of the walls of such cities or amphitheaters in the west of Turkey. Those who like archeology found here with the story at his feet. The area is very hot and dry, but once, in time of the Greeks was ancient port, now all dry.

We can travel from city to city with buses arriving and finding a place to sleep is not complicated, so that we can go a little adventure and explore the region without ties or problems.

One of the places to visit is the site of ancient Troy, which is only part of the wall, and you need an expert to distinguish the different layers of debris.

The Acropolis and strength in Bergamo (Pergamon), pyrene, Didymea, Ephesus … the list of places to visit is extensive, many of them only a pile of rocks and difficult to distinguish from other archaeological sites have fared better and are preserved and restored, but it is not usual. What we find in this part of Turkey is a journey through Greek and Roman culture.

In some places the sensation is of having made a journey through time as you can be in the same theater that did the Romans or walk down the same roads on which they went.

Sometime during the trip, we had to take a bus to take us to some secluded place, only bad thing about transportation here is that maybe we left somewhere for an afternoon while visiting the ruins we only was an hour and a half as much, which we had to wait long until the next bus to pass. Sometimes when this happened close to where we could find a service area or a cafe where old men played cards and drank tea … an opportunity to observe the locals. It is also common to find in stores these sites handmade carpets, in which we can pass the time.

Many times during these visits, we have found to be the only tourists in the place, and go on a bus full of locals we stopped anywhere, but the landscapes were great and you could see things like that here, the farmers still on mules and horses to their workplace.

In recent years Turkey has been sold as a popular tourist site and exotic, it is … but its charm can be found in other less crowded places and we will remember forever. It is a good opportunity if you enjoy visiting historical sites, you just have to prepare a little trip to organize and know the places to go, and otherwise find accommodation here without prior reservation is not usually a problem.