Lunch at a Turkish restaurant was divine. I said a prayer and went to see the Sacred Fountain and the Wishing Wall believed to make one’s wishes come true. The Roman-style stone chapel was rebuilt on the original structure which dates back to the 1st and 4th centuries. This pilgrimage site was discovered in 1892 based purely on the visions (which proved accurate) of a German nun, Anna Katharina Emmerick (1774-1824). Peace reigns at the House of Virgin Mary, considered to be Mother Mary’s home in her last days. The Great Theatre where happy audiences applauded, the Theatre Gymnasium for physical and mental training activities, the Hellenistic Fountain which received water supply from the Marnas River, the Trajan Fountain - a reservoir, Milestones indicating distances between ancient cities, the Bouleuterion which housed Parliament meetings, musical performances and contests, the House of Pleasure - supposedly a brothel, the public latrine, the Temple of Hadrian, the Basilica Stoa, Agora market and a shopping street were among the other facets we explored.Ī history buff, I was deeply satisfied and ready for the religious sojourn through Ephesus. Messages about important events and announcements were archived by inscribing from paper scrolls onto stone tablets, thus making these history pages in stone.īuilt on a burial chamber, the Celsus Library is a three-storeyed building with an impressive façade. An interesting feature is the stone inscriptions in Greek and Latin.
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