The Ancient city of Ephesus is a renowned World Heritage Site, that comprises "successive Hellenistic and Roman settlements... Excavations have revealed grand monuments of the Roman Imperial period including the Library of Celsus and the Great Theatre. Little remains of the famous Temple of Artemis, one of the “Seven Wonders of the World”, which drew pilgrims from all around the Mediterranean. Since the 5th century, the House of the Virgin Mary... became a major place of Christian pilgrimage." (quote from http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1018).