You will be picked up from your hotel by the tour guide and vehicle at the specified time. The first point of visit is the Virgin Mary's House.

HOUSE OF THE MARY: The House of the Virgin Mary is located on Mount Bulbul, 9 km from Selçuk. It is known that St. John brought the Virgin Mary to Ephesus 4 or 6 years after the death of Jesus. In 1891, Lazarist priests, after a dream by German nun A.Katherina Emmerick, discovered that the house where the Virgin Mary spent her last days was this house. This event was a brand new discovery in the Christian world and shed light on the entire world of religion. This structure, which has a cross plan and a dome, was later restored. The house, which is also considered sacred by Muslims, has been hosting services every year on the 15th of August since Pope Paul VI visited in 1967. After visiting the house of the Virgin Mary, we go to the ancient city of Ephesus.

THE ANCIENT CITY OF EPHESUS: It was an ancient Luwian city located on the western coast of Anatolia, three kilometers southwest of the Selçuk district of today's Izmir province. The city maintained its importance during the Ionian and later Roman periods, along with the beginning of Greek colonialism in Anatolia. Its foundation dates back to the Neolithic Age, i.e. 6000 BC. It was built by Attic and Ionian Greek colonists in the 10th century BC on the site of the old Arzava capital.

It was one of the twelve cities of Ionia during the classical Greek period. The city developed after it came under the control of the Roman Republic in 129 BC.

Ephesus was included in the World Heritage Tentative List by UNESCO in 1994 and was registered as a World Heritage Site in 2015.

After visiting Ephesus, we stop for lunch at a local restaurant.

After the lunch break, we continue our tour to the St. Jean Church.

ST JEAN CHURCH: One of the 12 apostles, the most beloved and the youngest… St. John, to whom Jesus entrusted his mother, also known as St. John Theologos, lived here, wrote the Gospel here and even died here. St. John, who is known to have come to Ephesus in 37-38, worked to spread the Christian faith in Ephesus and added new believers to his congregation. St. Paul also stayed in Ephesus for a while and then left. St. John, who began preaching the Gospel with St. Pertus in 67, was twice tried to kill him by the emperor of the time, Domitianus, and miraculously escaped both times.

St. John, who was exiled to the Island of Patmos in 81, returned to Ephesus in 95. St. John, who spent his last years in Ephesus (on Ayasuluk Hill), wrote the Gospel named after him and his letters here. He died here at the age of approximately 100 and was buried on Ayasuluk Hill according to his will. After St. Jean Church, we visit the Isa Bey Mosque located nearby.

ISA BEY MOSQUE: İsabey Mosque is located between the Temple of Artemis and the Church of St. Jean, southwest of the hill. With this location, it is meaningful that the symbols of three different religions are between a triangle. And there is no other example in the world. The mosque was built in 1375 by Aydınoğlu İsa Bey to the Damascene Architect Ali İbn-el Dımışkü. Some pieces, especially columns, from Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis were used in the 51X57 m mosque. The names of Mehmet's son İsa Bey and Architect Dımışıklıoğlu son Ali can be read on the inscription on the crown gate.

There is a porticoed courtyard covering the fountain in the middle of the mosque. Of the two minarets rising above the east and west gates of the mosque, the one in the east has completely collapsed and only one minaret remains.

We finish our tour after visiting the İsa Bey Mosque. Our tour guide and vehicle set off to drop you off at your hotel.