Ephesus Tours 2026 — Library of Celsus, Terrace Houses, Cruise Tips

The best-preserved Greco-Roman city in the eastern Mediterranean — and the only major ruin with frescoed Roman villas you can walk inside.

Ephesus was the second-largest city of the Roman Empire (population 250,000 in the 1st century AD) and the third-largest in Anatolia. Today it is the most extensively excavated Greco-Roman city in the world — roughly 18% of the ancient city is visible, and excavations continue under the Austrian Archaeological Institute.