The Great Theatre, Ephesus

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Only about 10% of the city has yet been excavated, but there is enough to realise the scale of the city and to be able to walk through the streets imagining what life would have been like in Roman times.
Marble Street was the main street of the town from the Great Theatre to the Celsus Library. The Great Theatre is famous for the reference to St Paul and the revolt of the Silversmiths. It stands at the end of the road from the Harbour and must have been a fantastic sight even then, towering above the buildings on both sides of the road. Gradually the harbour silted up and this proved to be the end of the city. Ephesus is now some miles from the sea.