Tuesday market in Tire

Tuesday market in Tire

This is a colorful and lively event which covers a large segmet of this historic town. Sellers are mostly women from neighbouring villages who offer their own garden produce.

Buys include olive oil, homemade soaps, local cheeses, herbs, painted felt mats, wicker baskets, hemp, ironwork and -in season- the unique mulberry ice cream.

The ruined synagogue, sole reminder of the town's once- flourishing Jewish community, serves as a junkyard.

Where is the Tire Market: Tire town centre

Sirince village near Selcuk

Sirince village near Selcuk

An attractive hill village surrounded by vineyards and peach gardens, Sirince retains its traditional apperance almost intact.

Most houses, built in a wattle-and daub technique with projecting upper storeys, date from the 19th century when the village was populated by greeks.

Unusually for a turkish village, the present inhabitants make and sell wine, and they are not averse to inviting visitors to their homes to have ataste of their vintage.

How to get to Sirince: Turnoff (marked) at N end of Selcuk, then 8 km.

The Terrace Houses in Ephesus

The Terrace Houses in Ephesus

A group of private residences inhabited from the 1st to 6th centuries AD, the Terrace Houses were brought to light in excavations carried out since the 1980s.

Along with those in Pompeii, they constitute some of the most vivid examples of Roman domestic architecture to survive to the present.