Private Ephesus and House of Virgin Mary Tour

Your private guide will meet you at the Kusadasi port with a sign that says "Your name", anytime you want. After greeting, we will have 20 minutes. drive to the Ephesus area. We will start by visiting one of the highlights in Turkey, Ephesus, as a port city, was an important starting point for trade routes to Asia Minor.

Visits of the day:

The house of the Virgin Mary: visit and Eucharistic celebration at the house of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is known with certainty that John lived in Ephesus. Christ, on the cross, before dying, entrusted his mother to his favorite apostle. Therefore Jesus - says the Gospel - when he saw his mother and the disciple he loved by his side, he said to the mother: Woman, here is your son! Then he said to the disciple: Here is your mother! and from that moment the disciple received her in his house. Therefore, the Virgin could reasonably have followed John to Ephesus. In favor of this theory, there is also the presence, in Ephesus, of a basilica from the Constantinian period that was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The third Ecumenical Council, which proclaimed the Virgin “Mother of God”, took place in this basilica in 431. Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) ruled favorably on these discoveries, and reestablished in the Ordo Romanus a note that on the occasion of the Feast of the Assumption mentioned Ephesus as the probable place of the Virgin's dormition.

Ephesus: Greco-Roman city, ancient capital of Asia Minor and one of the best preserved of antiquity, where you can find the Temple of Hadrian, the Temple of Trajan, the theater, the library of Celsus, etc. Travel the history throughout the marble streets lined with wonderful public buildings, among them the Scholastica Baths, the Library of Celsus; It was built in the early 2nd century AD. C. by Gaius Julius Aquila to be a monument to his father Gaius Julio Celsus Polemanus, the proconsul of the Province of Asia. , the Temple of Hadrian and the Grand Theater are two of the most impressive buildings in Ephesus. The great theater was built in the 3rd century BC. C. and later it was expanded to 24,000 spectators by the Romans in the 1st century AD. C. The theater was the place where Saint Paul preached. Leather goods factory: to finish off the hard day we will enjoy an elegant fashion show of models that will show us the latest in fashion for leather and leather goods and garments.

Transfer to the port for our services.