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3 Day itinerary in Turkey, Europe

Greek & Roman Heritage Tour

İf you are interested to see greek and roman heritage in western turkey,we are taking you to the most appealing ancient cities with expert Professional tour guides!

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Overview

Physical Difficulty

Light
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Recommended Age

Everyone

Operated in

English, Spanish

GUIDANCE

On Some Day Trips

starting point

Denizli Merkez

trip type

Private

trip attributes

Rural home stays

Indigenous culture

Meet local people

Visit markets

Culture & Heritage

Start

Night

End

Highlights

1

Leodicea

2

Hierapolis

3

Aphrodisias

4

Sirince,Ephesus

Itinerary

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Day 1

place LEODICEA & PAMUKKALE (HIERAPOLIS)

We will pick you up from Denizli airport and transfer you to Pamukkale area. First visit will be Leodicea. Laodicea , thanks to its great location on the meeting point of important trade routes became a very rich and important ancient city. With the last excavations and restoration an amazing city raised. From the enterance of the city espectacular syrian Street wellcomes you which leads you to Ephesus Street. Two sides of the Street amazing buildings with beautiful details lead you the theather of the city. And the church building is a must! This city mentioned in the book of revelation as one of the seven churches of first chiristians. Leodicea was a prosperous city, famous for its black wool, banking services, and medical achievements so you can obviously see this abundance from the church of the city. After visiting the site you will drive to Pamukkale village and have lunch here. İn the afternoon you will visit Pamukkale(Hierapolis). Pamukkale, which is ” Cotton Castle ” in turkish is a very special place where history meets with natural beauty. Naturally area has permeable soil and underground hot spring water runs close to the surface. Only in Pamukkale museum part there are 17 point where water comes to the earth. Today Pamukkale museum is one of the most popular museum but actually this tourism movement runs here for many centuries and started with discovery of ancient people , they discovered curative properties of this hot spring water here. From 500 bc people visited Pamukkale to cure their disies, and from 300 dc they founded a city that they called Holly city ‘Hierapolis’. Today ruins of the ancient city lies by the limestone terraces formed by the action of the hot springs. During your visit you can see beautiful ancient theather of the city,great hamam building which is converted to a museum (enterance is extra),main Street of the ancient city,necropolis(cementery),Cleopatra pool and spend time in limestone terraces. End of the day you will be ....

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Package Rate: Lycus River Thermal Hotel
Day 2

place APHRODISIAS & SIRINCE VILLAGE

2.day after breakfast and check out you will meet with your guide and driver at the reception and start the day. After 1.5 drive you will arrive to the city of beautiful Aphrodite. APHRODISIAS Aphrodisias as we can understand from it is name is a city dedicated to goddess Aphrodite, goddes of beauty of all the times. So her city is inspired by her beauty so Aphrodisias is the Aphrodite of the Ancient greko-roman cities in Western Turkey. As the location of the city is not far away from main trade routes, city get colonized by greeks 2 nd B.C and after this city became more populated and popular. Just like worthy of Aphrodite’s glory city is so beautiful. One of the most important sculptor school was here and every year a competition between sculptors was organized here,to be able to choose the most talented sculptor. So you will see the creations of these talented artists. Even to Rome they sold pieces from this city.You can see these monuments; monumental enterance Tetrapylon, imperial monument Sebastion, one of the biggest stadium of the World,temple of Aprodite, great hamam complex and the museum.Aphrodisias tour will take aprx. 2 hours After lunch in a very local town restaurant and try delicious turkish pizzas you will take the car, drive 1.5 hours,a little siesta thill the Sirince village. SIRINCE Sirince is a greek-turkish village founded in end of 14 century by the last chiristians who abondoned Ephesus. Thill the population exchance happened between Greece and Turkey, this village habitated by greeks and than Turks who imigrated from Greece setteled here. Today village is a bit turisty place where you can see old style houses where local sells their products from their farms. A very good place to taste turkish ice-cream. End of the tour you will be transferred to hotel in Kusadasi/Selçuk region and overnight.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Lunch

Accommodation:

  • Package Rate: Charisma De Luxe Hotel
Day 3

place EPHESUS

Early in the morning you will meet with your guide and after a shorth drive you will arrive to ephesus area and start your visits.Ephesus had been a trade centre of the ancient world, because Ephesus is in that location where trade roads end by land and from the horbour of the city continious to Europa by sea. Other reason is Ephesus always been an importand culte center of mothergoddes, Kybele or Artemis in greek period and later all these female figures converted in to Mother Mary. And also Ephesus is considered to one of the most well preserved ancient city from Greko-Roman preod where you can imagine easly how people lived 2000 yers ago. Visit to ruins of ancient city Ephesus is the most important visit of the day. You will walk trough the original streets of the city which is 2000 years old. You will enter city from top gate from the official part of the city. Firstly you will visit Boluterium,the parliament building of the city. So do not expect to see a palace of a king here because ephesus never been a kingdom. After greek colonization city was a greek federation, 1 century bc Ephesus became a state of Roman empire. Thats how you will see greek and Roman style together in this city architecture. After you will walk down to domitianus square, you will see beautiful Nike relief. Then you will pass truogh the Hercules gate where you have a general look to the city center. You will walk by the trojan fountain,hadrian temple,public toilets and reach to the most important monument in ephesus,Library of Celcius. Last visit point will be great public theather which has a capacity of 25.000 people,one of the biggest in the World. Other visit during the tour will be House of Virgin Mary. As it is beleived when Jesus crucified he left his mother to the guard of St. John the Evangelist and because of his mission St John travelled to Ephesus with Mother Mary where Virgin Mary. spent her last days and deceased. The Vatican has recognized this small house as the final ..

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Lunch

What’s Included

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  • Lycus River Thermal Hotel
  • Charisma De Luxe Hotel

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  • Lunch (3)

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  • Minibus - Bus

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  • Tracking

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  • * INCLUDED 2 nights BB accomodation,Transfers from airport to Pamukkale
  • Entrance fees of museums mentioned above, Daily one bottle of water in vehicle (private tours)
  • Lunch in a local restaurant, Licenced profesional tour guide during tour

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  • * EXCLUDED Flight tickets Beverages Any personal expences Tips for the driver and guide

About Gokhan

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Meet local people

Indigenous culture

Hiking

Visit markets

Hello, my name is Gokhan and warmly welcome to Turkey. Gokhan means ruler of the sky in old Turkish culture.

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