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Ephesus

The Greco-Roman world truly comes alive at Ephesus. After more than a century and a half of excavation, the city's recovered and renovated structures have made Ephesus Europe's most complete classical metropolis – and that's with 80% of the city yet to be unearthed!

The Temple of St John in the Roman ruins of ancient Ephesus, the city was a great trading and religious city and a centre for the cult of Cybele, the Anatolian fertility goddess

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