Take an early morning flight to Izmir and arrive at Izmir Airport. Our tour guide and vehicle will meet you.

After a 1 hour journey, reach Selçuk district. First visit point is Virgin Mary House.

HOUSE OF MARY: Virgin Mary House is located on Mount Bulbul, 9 km away from Selçuk. It is known that St. John brought Virgin Mary to Ephesus 4 or 6 years after the

death of Jesus. In 1891, Lazarist priests revealed that the house where Virgin Mary spent her last days was this house after a dream by German nun A.Katherine Emmerick.

This event was a brand new discovery in the Christian world and shed light on the entire world of religion. This structure with a cross plan and dome was later restored. In

the house, which is also considered sacred by Muslims, ceremonies are held every year on the 15th of August after 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, which was included in the World Heritage Tentative List by UNESCO in 1994, 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 St. Jean Church.

ST JEAN CHURCH: One of the 12 apostles, the most beloved and the youngest… St. John Theologos, to whom Jesus entrusted his mother, 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 started preaching the Gospel with St. Pertus in 67, was twice tried to kill him by the

emperor of the time, Domitianus, and he miraculously escaped both times.

St. John, who was exiled to the island of Patmos in 81, returned to Ephesus in 95. Spending his last years in Ephesus (on Ayasuluk Hill), St. John wrote the Gospel and

letters that are named after him 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 nearby Isa Bey Mosque.

ISA BEY MOSQUE: Isa Bey 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 Isa Bey for the architect

Ali İbn-el Dımışkü from Damascus. Some pieces, especially columns, from Ephesus and the Temple of Artemis were used in the mosque, which is 51x57 m in size. The

names of Mehmet's son Isa Bey and Architect Dımışıklı son Ali can be read on the inscription on the crown gate.

In the middle of the mosque is a porticoed courtyard that includes a fountain. The one on the east of the mosque, which has two minarets rising above the east and west

gates, has completely collapsed and only one minaret remains.

We finish our tour after visiting the İsabey Mosque. We set off to go to our hotel in Kuşadası.

Kuşadası accommodation.

Day 2: Meeting at the hotel at the specified time in the morning and departure. Our first stop is the ancient city of Priene.

PRIENE ANCIENT CITY: Priene is one of the important ancient cities established on the southern slope of Samsun Mountain, 15 km southwest of Söke district. Being built

on a steep rock at an altitude of 370 m provided an advantage in resisting attacks. In addition, being on a high place allows the city to be seen from different directions. The

first information about Priene, which is considered to be a member of the Ionian League like Miletus, is found in ancient sources in the mid-7th century BC.

The most important structures of the city include the Temple of Demeter, the Temple of Athena, the theater, the agora, the Temple of Zeus, the bouleuterion, the Upper

Gymnasium, the Lower Gymnasium, the Egyptian Temple, the house of Alexander the Great, the Byzantine church, the necropolis and residential areas. The theater, which

has a capacity of 5000 people, was built in 350 BC. In front of the temple built for the goddess Athena in the most dominant place of the city, there was a statue of Athena

made of gold and ivory. Only a part of the temple altar is still standing today. After the ancient city of Priene, our stop is the ancient city of Miletus, which is 30 minutes away.

MILETUS ANCIENT CITY: The first settlement foundation ruins of the ancient city and the beginning of its history cannot be examined individually but together with the

Ionian region. The ancient city of Miletus, known as the region where ancient foundations indicate traces of the Neolithic period, is known to have been the first settlement in

Miletus starting in the mid-2000s BC with the existence of a Mycenaean colony. Miletus was re-established by the Ionians led by Nekus, the son of the King of Athens,

Kodros. It is one of the most important city ports of the 12 cities of Ionia. It has four ports. It experienced its brightest period in the 7th and 6th centuries BC. It became very

rich thanks to its colonies in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, especially after 650 BC.

It was captured by the Persians in 546 BC. It later became an independent city during the Roman period. Miletus, which was also an important center during the Early

Christian period, shrank in size and came under Seljuk rule in the 13th century, and then under Ottoman rule. It is known that Miletus has been inhabited since the Stone

Age. However, there is no archaeological evidence for Stone Age inhabitants on Miletus and the surrounding islands, and this is attributed to the rise of the waters of the

Aegean Sea and the change of the mouth of the Büyük Menderes several times. According to information obtained from archaeological research, Miletus was first a

settlement of those who lived in the Neolithic Age in 3500-3000 BC.

After our visit, we stop for lunch at a local restaurant.

After lunch, we continue our tour to the Temple of Apollo in Didim.

TEMPLE OF APOLLO: Didyma is an ancient Greek sanctuary located on the Ionian coast. This site contains the Temple of Apollo. Next to Delphi, Didyma is the most

famous oracle center of the Hellenic world. It was first mentioned in Homer's Hymn to Apollo. Its foundation is pre-literacy, even before the Hellenic colonization of Ionia.

Apollo was the chief god of the Didyma sanctuary, also called Didymaion. The Didymaion was well known in antiquity for its famous oracle center. This oracle center of

Apollo was, and still is, housed in one of the largest Apollo temples in the world. The ruins of this Hellenistic temple are one of the best-preserved temples of classical

antiquity. Besides this temple, there were other structures recently rediscovered within the sanctuary; two of these are a Greek theater and the foundations of the Hellenistic

Artemis temple mentioned above.

The day ends with a visit to the Temple of Apollo. We set off to return to our hotel. Accommodation in Kuşadası at the end of the tour.

Day 3: Meeting at the hotel at the specified early time and leaving the hotel for the Bergama tour. After the journey that will take approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, Bergama will be reached.

BERGAMA ANCIENT CITY: Bergama district center is established on the hillside where the ancient city of Pergamon, the capital of the Pergamon Kingdom in the Hellenistic

period, was located. Pergamon, which was a place where people engaged in small-scale agriculture gathered before the establishment of the Pergamon Kingdom, is

considered to have an oldest known history of 3000 BC. The oldest place in the region is the Yortanlı Cemetery. The ancient city was the capital of the Pergamon Kingdom,

which became one of the most powerful Hellenistic kingdoms in Anatolia between 280-133 BC, and is equipped with many important architectural works. The Pergamon

Libraries, one of the most famous structures of the period, and the Pergamon Asclepieion, the health center of the ancient world, were built.

After visiting the ancient city of Pergamon, we stop for lunch at a local restaurant.

After lunch, we continue our tour to Asclepius.

ASCLEPION: Asclepius was a healing temple in Ancient Greece, consecrated in the name of the god of medicine Asclepius. These temples were a place where patients

would visit, whether for treatment or some kind of healing, whether spiritual or physical.

Asklepion got its name from the God of Health, Asklepios. Asklepios was the child of Apollo, the God of Health, and a fairy named Koronis. Over time, Asklepios became a

famous doctor and was thought to have resurrected even the dead. Zeus got very angry and killed Asklepios. Many temples were built in the name of Asklepios. These

temples were named Asklepios. These were in Titan-Trika, Rhodes, Istankoy, Epidauros, Athens and Pergamon. The only Asklepion that has survived to this day is the one

in Pergamon. It is thought that this Asklepion, located in the Bergama district of Izmir, was founded in the 4th century BC. It continued to provide healing for 9 centuries. It is

located in a valley on Geyikli Mountain and is thought to have healing water sources. People were healed with these healing waters. Pergamon Asklepion is a medical

school where famous doctors such as Galenos were trained and is the world's first psychiatric hospital.

In Bergama Asklepion, in addition to the most important methods of suggestion and physiotherapy, water-mud baths, massages, healing herbs, music, and various

ceremonies were also treatment methods. Asklepion had healing waters, corridors and tunnels where mental patients could wander accompanied by the sounds of water

and birds, and marble theaters. Heliotherapy (sun treatment), teatrotherapy (theater), theotherapy (belief), and gymnastics (sports); are known as the famous treatment

methods of Asklepion. When a patient came to this center, he would first be cleaned with healing waters, then he would wish God for health and make various offerings. He

would sleep and a treatment program would be determined by analyzing the dream he saw by priest doctors. It has been observed that doctors from Bergama interpreted

the dreams of patients and used psychotherapy. In addition, opium-based drugs were first used to relieve pain by these doctors in Asklepion.

After the visit, we set off again to return to the hotel at the end of the tour.

Return to Kuşadası hotel and accommodation.

DAY 4: You will be transferred from your hotel to the airport to board your scheduled flight from Kuşadası.