On our road trip through Turkey, we both wanted to stop and spend one day in Ephesus. We did not expect it to be much, but we wanted to see the ruins of the Biblical city where Paul once walked.
The Library of Celsus is the third largest library in the ancient world. It was built to hold 12,000 scrolls and completed in 114 – 117 A.D.
The street leads from the Library of Celsus up through a main street that was full of shops in ancient times.
The Terrace Houses are the homes where the wealthy lived in ancient Ephesus. The houses were used from the first to seventh century A.D.
Take time to explore the Great Theater, the biggest ancient theater in Turkey. It seats 24,000 people.
Unlike the Great Theater which began as a Greek theater, the Odeon Theater was built by the Romans. It seats 1,400 people, so it is much smaller than the Great Theater.
The rest of the year, from November to March, they close a little earlier at 5 p.m. The cost to enter the ruins is 60 TL (Turkish Lira) or about $10.