Did you know;

* That there is a lift in Izmir on the street where the famous singer Dario Moreno lived; it is the unique lift in the world for being transported from one region to another of the city.

* The spa which cures almost all type of illness having the best quality is in Balcova (Agamemnon) Izmir.

 

* The toilets in Ephesus were ranged side by side with no partition between them. Before the rich people used the toilets their slaves sat and heated toilets’ stone for their masters.

* The Celsus Library in Ephesus was the third largest library after  the Alexandra and Pergamum with the capacity of 12,000 scrolls.

* One of the early philosophers Heraclitus was born in Ephesus and his famous motto that an individual can and can not step into the same river twice.

* The first church dedicated to Virgin Mary is in Ephesus.

* The Ancient City of Ephesus was built 4 times in the history and the Ephesus we walk around today is the 3th one.

* The Third Ecumenical Council convened in the Church of the Virgin Mary.The same church is also known as one of the seven churches of the Apocalypse.Mary lived her last years of her life in Turkey, here in a small cottage near Ephesus.

 

* One of the seven wonders of the antiquity, Temple of Artemis, is at Ephesus.

 

* One of the Seven Churches (congregation in the first century AD) of Revelation was in Ephesus. (Revelation 2:1-7)

* The first advertisement of the antiquity, which shows the way to the brothel, is on the Marbel Street in Ephesus.

* 7 Christians who fled Ephesus is believed to have slept in a cave near Ephesus for 200 years.

* Ephesus is the best preserved classical city of the Eastern Mediterranean, and among the best places in the world enabling one to genuinely soak in the atmosphere of Roman times.