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Kusadasi, itself, is a port of some
beauty, and shops near the port are teeming with leather goods, including coats,
jackets, dresses, purses, and other fine goods. But the jewel of this port is
Ephesus, a city that has been built to splendor more than once. The original
city was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and only a tiny portion
of that city remains, but the city of 250,000 in the 2nd century A.D. has been
largely excavated and preserved. There are the marble streets, with the chariot
tracks still there, the facade of the Celsus Library, the Baths, the Theatre,
and even the marble seats of the toilets.
Ephesus is also the place where the
Virgin Mary came with the Apostle Paul after the crucifixion of Christ. Her home
can be visited and photographed. (See below.)
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