The Aegean & Mediterranean, Türkiye
Selçuk & Ephesus
A market town beside one of the best-preserved classical cities in the Mediterranean.
Selçuk & Ephesus is at 37.950°N, 27.370°E.
Why go
- Ephesus's library facade and marble street
- The terrace houses, roofed and separately ticketed, with intact mosaics
- Şirince, a hill village of former Greek houses making fruit wine
Give it 1–2 nights
Enough to see the list below without spending the trip on trains. The Journey Planner uses exactly this range when it builds an itinerary.
When to come
Best: April, May, September, October. Quieter: March, June, November. Why, and what that means →
Getting there
High-speed rail links Istanbul, Ankara and Konya. All of Türkiye →
Getting near
Samos
Port
İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport
Airport · ADB
Izmir
Port
Airports and ports within reach, from Natural Earth — public domain, hosted by us. The distance is a straight line, which is the only thing a coordinate can honestly tell you: 43 km across the Accursed Mountains is four hours, and we hold no timetables, operators or fares.
Events
Nationwide fixtures, not tied to one destination. The whole European year is on /events.
Ramadan and Eid
Nationwide, dates move each year
Whirling dervish ceremonies for Rumi
Konya
Travel tips
Practical things about Türkiye that are not obvious from outside it.
- Only East Thrace and part of Istanbul are geographically in Europe; the rest is Asia.
- Mosques welcome visitors outside prayer times; shoes off, shoulders and knees covered, heads covered for women.
- Bargaining is expected in bazaars and not in shops.
Accommodation & restaurants
EuropeDoor lists neither, yet. Both are business listings rather than editorial entries: they need an operator who claims them, a verification tier and a way to keep prices current, and all three are blocked on the same thing as everything else commercial here. How listings will work · what is built and what is blocked.
Publishing a scraped hotel list would be quick and would be the first unverified thing on this site. That is the trade being refused.
Nearest onward stops
Straight-line distance, and what that usually means in practice.
The record
What we hold about this place, and what our own tagging makes of it. It is the last thing on the page on purpose: it is useful when you are already interested, and it is not a reason to be.
- Kind of place
- Town
- Coordinates
- 37.950°N, 27.370°E
Europe Experience Score
How this is calculated — derived from our own tagging, not from measurement. It says what a place is for, not how good it is. The tick on each bar is the median across the whole Atlas, so a bar short of it is a dimension this place is not for.
This place, in the rest of the site
Every journey that stops here, every theme that names it and every story set in it.