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19 Kalistratou - Samos 831 03 - Greece Pithagórion, Sámos, Northeast Aegean Islands, 124010, Greece

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Mad dog and tree trimming

A travel blog entry by heathalessleofo

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After a couple of days to relax, today we moved on to Ephesus. It may appear that we spend a lot of time moving and rush around too much. But we've noticed – the adults at least – that after two or three days standing still we get restless. We enjoy moving around and don't really feel like we’re rushing. We did rush a little to get in and out of Greece in time, but from now on we have no time constraints ...

Roman City and an Ancient Wonder of the World!

A travel blog entry by andrew_leesia

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9.20am start today, Colin and Graham took us down to the Ephesus ruins in our big yellow truck. When we got there the site was already jammed packed full of tourists (we like to call ourselves travellers or explorers ;) ). Most of the group was pretty much 'ruined-out' and opted for no guide today, instead Andrew was delegated as the guide so he was left fiddling with guide books to provide the group with as much info as he could. Of course this meant that I was ...

Ephesus

A travel blog entry by harrisg

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... silted up and into the Christian era the city gradually declined. Earthquakes destroy temples and topple columns and then people cart away the bloacks and cylinders to ue in their own great works. You can bet that a lot of the stone from the Temple of Artemis became part of the 4th century AD Church of St John above the ruins and of the Byzantine ...

From Ephesus to Santorini, Part II

A travel blog entry by c.i.222

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... cliffs in Europe, and has been inhabited since prehistoric times (settled since the 4th century BC). The island has two natural ports, Katapola (main) and Aegiali, with a population of
1,850 inhabitants. Part of the island was named As Is, where the temple of the goddess Aphrodite stood.

We visited the Hozoviotissa Monastery, built hundreds of feet ...

The Incredible Ephesus

A travel blog entry by annalisamurray

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... 8220;Meryemana” in Turkish and believed to be the last residence of the Virgin Mary, is located in a nature park between Ephesus and Selcuk, although we didn’t have the time to visit it today). Except for the time when St. John was exiled to the nearby island of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation, he lived the remainder of his life in and around Ephesus.

Upon his death in Ephesus, St. John's grave was marked by ...