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Great Theatre
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Curetes Street
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Alytarches' Stoa
Beside the lower stretch of Curetes Street, the Stoa of Alytarches preserves traces of mosaic pavement and shopfronts. Its street-facing remains can be examined from the open visitor route near the Terrace Houses.
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Androklos Monument
This Hellenistic heroon beside Curetes Street is traditionally associated with Androklos, Ephesus's legendary founder. The identification remains interpretive, while the surviving monument gives a visible point for considering the city's foundation story.
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Basilica Stoa
The Basilica Stoa occupied a long side of Ephesus's State Agora, giving the civic square a colonnaded edge. The surviving line helps distinguish this public frontage from the open square itself.
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Tetragonos Agora
The Tetragonos Agora was Ephesus's rectangular commercial square, bordered by porticoes and approached near the Mazaeus and Mithridates Gate. Its footprint reveals the scale of exchange in the lower city.
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Curetes Street
Curetes Street slopes through Ephesus between civic spaces and the lower monumental quarter. Gates, fountains, baths and decorated façades line the marble route, making the street itself a key part of the visit.
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Ephesus Experience Museum
The Ephesus Experience Museum presents an immersive, indoor interpretation of the ancient city near the archaeological route. It can give visitors a narrative frame before or after seeing the surviving monuments outdoors.
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Great Theatre
Ephesus's Great Theatre rises above the route between the lower city and former harbor. The surviving auditorium gives a strong sense of the city's public scale and its connection to Harbor Street.
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Hadrian’s Gate
Hadrian's Gate stood near the Triodos junction, where routes converged at the lower end of Curetes Street. Its remains help identify an important threshold in the ancient street network.
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Harbor Baths
The Harbor Baths formed part of Ephesus's former port quarter beyond the theatre. Their surviving walls show that this district served daily urban needs as well as movement toward the waterfront.
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Hercules Gate
Hercules Gate narrows the upper end of Curetes Street with carved piers bearing the hero's relief. The surviving pieces mark a clear change in the width and character of the route.
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Fountain of Laecanius Bassus
The Fountain of Laecanius Bassus stood near Ephesus's State Agora, where a monumental water display served the upper city. Its remains give a distinct point of focus beside the civic square.
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The Council Hall and Civic Heart of Ephesus
Trace the upper city from the State Agora Baths and Odeon through the Prytaneion and State Agora, ending where the imperial terrace meets the Memmius Monument.
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From the Odeon to the Harbor Street
Begin among the Odeon’s civic seats, descend Curetes Street to the Terrace Houses and Library of Celsus, then finish beside the Great Theatre at the reported eastern viewing stretch of Arcadiane, where access depends on current barriers.
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Fountains, Baths and Street Life
Follow the Hercules Gate downhill past Trajan’s Fountain and the Temple of Hadrian, then examine the Scholastica Baths and public latrines before reaching the Commercial Agora.
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