Seven Churches of Revelations Tour 6 Days

Day 1 : Arrive in Izmir; Ttrnsf to hotel and overnight Izmir
Day 2 : Smyrna,Pergamon,Asclepion( Medical Centre) and Red Court(Byzantine Church),Thyatira overnight Izmir
Day 3 : Sardis,Philadelphia,Hierapolis-Pamukkale,Overnight Pamukkale
Day : 4 Laodicea.Colossea Overnight Kusadasi
Day 5 : House of Virgin Mary,Ephesus,St,John’s Basilica,Museum
Day 6 : Transfer to Izmir Airport.

Day 1: Izmir

You will be met by Helliantus Anadolu Tours represantative and transfer to your hotel,Welcome Coctail.After dinner,Your guide will give you a brief information about your tour.

Overnight in Izmir.

Day : 2 Izmir

After breakfast visit to the St.Policarp Church in ancient Smyrna,it symbolized the Community of the Seven Churches of Apocalpyse.Visit the Alexander the Great’s city ‘’Velvet Castle’’ overlooking the bay of modern city Izmir.Drive to Pergamon to visit Acropolis and Asclepion ,established by great physician ,Galenos and the Red Court the Byzantine Church,Lunch and drive to Akhisar to visit the Church of Ancient Thyatira return to Izmir dinner and overnight Hotel in Izmir

Day : 3 Pamukkale

After breakfast at hotel drive to Sardes, the capital of Lydian Kingdom.

Also an ancient political and cultural centre in Anatolia.You will be impressed by the massive scale of the Temple of Artemis,and small building at the corner of the temple 4th century AD,to be an early Christian Church at Pactalos Valley and the white marble Royal Road built by the Persians.Begining in Sardes and extends 1600 Miles into soughtwest Iran.Will visit the impressive Gymnasium and its excavated Synagogue and Valley.Lunch and drive to Philadelphia,

the city of Brotherly Love.Visit the late Byzantine church ruins and continue drive to Pamukkale dinner and overnight in Pamukkale.

Day 4 : Kusadasi

After breakfast at hotel tour at ancient Hiearapolis Pamukkale the dazzling white hillside is starling as we apprioach the site.Pamukkale there are the thermal springs that made the city a popular spa.The mineral-rich waters and view the calscified Terraces looks like a Cotton Castle the white travertine terraces.

The first reference to Hierapolis in the new testament associates the city and the church there with the work of Epaphras,who in prison later became acquainted with Paul.

Drive to visit ruins Laodicea smallest of the Seven Churches the city is under the excavation by local Chamber of Commerce and proceed to visit Collosea,an important city in its day and drive to Kusadasi.dinner and overnight in Kusadasi.

Day : 5 Kusadasi

After breakfast at hotel short drive to House of Virgin Mary,where tradition has it Mary spent her last days looked after by St.John.Visit Ephesus,on time home of St.Paul and St.John,and one of the seven churches of the Revelation.We visit the Roman city with its State and Commercial Agoras,Bath houses,temples and colonnaded streets,Celsus Library,remarkablely well preserved theatre where St.Paul preached to Ephesians and Demetrius harangued the crowd against St.Paul and absorb the powerfull atmosphere of those heady times.Walk on the Harbour Street to go to The Double Church of the Virgin Mary where the third Ecumenical Council was held in 431 AD.

Lunch at a local restaurant and visit the Basilica of St.John built by Emperor Justinnian in the 6th century on the grave of the Apostle John and the Museum has displaced the two greatest marble statues of Artemis 1st and 2nd Century AD.overnight in Kusadasi

Day: 6 Kusadasi

Transfer to Izmir Airport for the return flight.

BIBLICAL REFERENCES:
Smyrna Revelations:2:8-11
Pergamon Revelations:2:12-17
Thyatira Revelations:2:18-29 Acts 16:14
Sardes Revelations:3:1-6
Philedelphia Revelations:3:7-13
Laodicea Revelations:3:14-22
Ephesus Revelations: 1:11:2:1-7 Acts 18:19-28:19

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