Ayasuluk Hill
Although the castle was built in Byzantine times, most of the remains are from the Selcuk and Ottoman period. The castle has two gates, one being a memorial gate on the west and the other on the south. The walls were fortified with fifteen towers. A large section of the wall has been restored.
Legend has it that St. John wrote his gospel in one of these towers.
The hill was defended by this well-fortified castle in the Early Christian, Byzantine, and Selcuk periods. The part of the wall still standing is from the Early Christian period and was restored in Selcuk times.
The main gate in the wall was borrowed from Roman design and was built in the 6th century. Within the castle are a chapel and numerous cisterns. This old Byzantine church was later used as a cistern.
Ephesus sections
- Ephesus Tours
- Basilica of St.John
- The House of Virgin Mary
- Museum of Ephesus
- The Temple of Artemis
- Celsus Library
- Magnesia Gate
- East Gymnasium
- Varius Bath
- Bouleuterion
- Basilica
- Prytaneion
- Upper Agora
- Domitian Fountain
- Pollio Fountain
- Memmius Monument
- Heracles Gate
- Curates Street
- Serapis Temple
- Mazeus Gate
- Lower Agora
- The Marbel Street
- Grand Theater
- Hellenistic Fountain
- Theater Gymnasium
- Harbour Street
- Church of Mary
- Vedius Gymnasium