Aphrodisias, Turkey
Our group slept late today, 8:30, and we traveled to Aphrodisias, which is considered one of the more beautiful Greco Roman cities in Turkey.
There is an enormous well preserved stadium that sat 30,000 people, a type of city counsel meeting facility the looks like a small theater, and a huge temple to Aphrodite that was converted into a basilica style church around 500 AD. Christian symbols are still visible in the church ruins.
The city had a marble quarry and also a sculpture school which means that an incredible amount of 1st - 5th century AD sculpture work has been unearthed and is on display in a museum on site.
A long drive to the west coast, to the modern city of Kusadasi, near the archeological area of Ephesus, where we will stay 3 nights. We are right on the Aegean Sea. Tomorrow all day at Ephesus!!
