Your private guide will meet you in your hotel lobby at 0:00 a.m. After the welcome, we will depart for Ephesus, a 00-minute drive. We will begin by visiting one of Turkey's top attractions, Ephesus, one of the 00 cities of the Ionian League (an ancient Greek district on the western coast of Asia Minor), located near Izmir. As a port city, it was an important departure point for trade routes to Asia Minor. Walk through history along marble streets lined with magnificent public buildings, including the Baths of Scholastica and the Library of Celsus, built in the early 0nd century AD by Gaius Julius Aquila in memory of his father, Gaius Julius Celsus Polemanus, proconsul of the province of Asia. The Temple of Hadrian and the Great Theatre are two of Ephesus's most impressive buildings. The Great Theatre was built in the 0rd century BC. The stadium was originally built in the 0st century AD and was later expanded to a capacity of 00,000 by the Romans in the 0st century AD. The House of the Virgin Mary is located in the Aladag Mountains, 0 km from Ephesus. At the Third Ecumenical Council, held in Ephesus in 000 AD, it was affirmed that Mary arrived in Ephesus with St. John in 00 AD and lived there until her death in 00 AD. Following the discovery of the house, the Archbishop of Izmir declared it a place of pilgrimage in 0000. On July 00, 0000, Pope Paul VI visited and prayed at this site. We will make a stop at the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as our final stop before returning to your hotel in Kusadasi.