Harbour Baths

Ephesus


These baths, part of a complex that included a gymnasium and a sports area, were erected at the end of the 1st century AD but were badly damaged by an earthquake in 262 and not completed until the 4th century.


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Nearby Ephesus attractions

1. Columns of the Evangelists

0.12 MILES

The middle of Harbour St (Arcadian Way) is marked by the shafts of Corinthian columns that once supported statues of the four Evangelists erected in the…

2. Church of St Mary

0.13 MILES

Northwest of the Lower Gate, a signposted path leads to the ruins of the Church of St Mary, also called the Double Church. The original building was a…

3. Harbour Street

0.15 MILES

The 530m-long Harbour St was built by Byzantine Emperor Arcadius (r 395-408) to link the Great Theatre and the Middle Harbour Gate in a late attempt to…

4. Lower Gate

0.19 MILES

This is the second, less frequented entrance to the ruins at Ephesus.

5. Theatre Gymnasium

0.24 MILES

You can pick out the foundations of this once-colossal structure, which was used for physical training and dates from around AD 125. A lot of excavation…

6. Ephesus

0.28 MILES

Of Turkey's hundreds of ancient cities and classical ruins, Ephesus is the grandest and best preserved. A Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, it's the best…

7. Temple of Serapis

0.29 MILES

This massive structure, reached by a flight of marble steps in the southwest corner of the Lower Agora, may have contained a temple to the Greco-Egyptian…

8. Lower Agora

0.3 MILES

This 110-sq-m one-time market had a massive colonnade. The shops in the colonnades traded in food and textiles; the agora's proximity to the harbour…