Since antiquity, people have believed that the leaves of the hedgehog tree represent the cycle of life and death whenever they change colour from green...
Faustina Gate is located where Faustina Avenue (which starts from the port) meets Smyrna Agora. It is a double-arched monumental gate, the northern arch of...
The Smyrna City Council was where all the administrative decisions about the city’s future were made. It sits along the northern parcel of a building...
Bouleuterion Avenue used to run along western side of the mosaic building, and the connected Faustina with North Avenue as well. One could also use...
Faustina Avenue stretches from Faustina Gate to the port. The northern side of it leads to the mosaic building. At one point, there used to...
Dating back to the second half of the 19th century, the building consists of a courtyard and buildings on both sides. The south wing of...
South of the Agora Roman Bath sits an Ottoman building – the function of which remains unknown – on 1,000 m2 patch of space. Recent...
Aristeides, a famous 2nd Century orator and writer, once stated that Smyrna was home to many baths, and that it was too difficult to decide...
This excavation house is a prime example of the 19th Century Turkish civil architecture. The house upon which it sits was expropriated and restored by...
