We visited the western part of Turkey in the summer of 2000. Modern Turkey is the inheritor of incredible history.
Turkey has one of the world's best preserved ruins in Ephesus.
Ephesus is the city where St. John wrote the fourth Gospel and to whom St. Paul wrote his letters to the Ephesians. However, in real life, there is no sea at the bottom of the hill, only the current town of Pamukkale. And of course, there is the house of Mary , where St. Mary lived after the death of Jesus with St. John the Apostle . The Roman Catholic church officially recognizes this house as the house that Mary lived in. Read more about the House of Mary, St. Mary and St. John .