Biblical Ephesus Tour

Tour overview

Two apostles, one unforgettable day

Ephesus is the only city on earth so closely tied to two apostles: Paul, who taught here for over two years and left with a riot at his back, and John, who tradition says brought Mary here after the Crucifixion, wrote his Gospel nearby, and was buried on the hill above the Temple of Artemis. This tour is built around them both.

The morning belongs to Mary and John — the quiet mountain house where the Church remembers her last years, then Paul's marble city with the Book of Acts open in hand. After lunch and a relaxed artisan visit, the day rises to the Basilica of Saint John, where a simple marble slab under a Byzantine dome marks the Evangelist's tomb — with the single standing column of the Temple of Artemis in the valley below, a view that preaches its own sermon on what remains and what passes away.

Highlights

• The House of Virgin Mary at first light, before the crowds
• Ephesus Ancient City — the Odeon, Curetes Street, Celsus Library and the theater of Acts 19
• The tomb of Saint John the Evangelist in his great Byzantine basilica
• The baptistery where Byzantine converts entered the Church
• The Temple of Artemis seen from above — one column left of a Wonder of the World