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Discover Ephesus, Bodrum & the South
Aegean
At a Glance
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Selçuk
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Ephesus is 3km from this laid-back town dotted with ruins and
pensions.
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Kuşadası
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Coastal tourist town. Day trips include the ruins of Ephesus
(19km inland), Priene, Miletus and Didyma.
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Bodrum
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Whitewashed town with sights, activities, nightlife and easy
access to Bodrum Peninsula villages and beaches.
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Datça & Bozburun Peninsulas
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Rugged and relatively undeveloped ad-
joining peninsulas.
Ephesus (Efes)
More than anywhere else, the Greco- Roman world comes alive at
Ephesus
( 892 6010;
admission/parking
"
25/7.50; 8am-6.30pm May-Oct, to 4.30pm Nov-Apr)
. After almost 150 years of
excavation, the city's recovered and renovated structures have made Ephesus Europe's
most complete classical metropolis - and that's with 82% of the city still to be unearthed.
As capital of Roman Asia Minor, Ephesus was a vibrant city of over 250,000 inhabitants.
Counting traders, sailors and pilgrims to the Temple of Artemis, these numbers were even
higher, meaning that in Ephesus one could encounter the full diversity of the Mediterranean
world and its peoples. So important and wealthy was Ephesus that its Temple of Artemis
(in present-day Selçuk) was the biggest on earth, and one of the Seven Wonders of the An-
cient World.
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