| Around a 40 minute drive from the Club la Costa | | | | Initially the ancient city of Miletus was a major port in |
| resort of Apollonium in Didim, Turkey you will find the | | | | Turkey and where goods from all over the world |
| ancient city of Miletus. This was a very important city | | | | would be brought to. However this all came to an end |
| to the Ionians for 1400 years until around 700 AD. | | | | when the Meander River which ran beside the city |
| It was considered to be one of the Seven Sages of | | | | became full of alluvium and resulting in it being cut off |
| Greece and is to believed to be where the "founder of | | | | from the sea. |
| science" Thales of Miletus lived. It is this gentleman that | | | | The harbour that was so important to this city |
| in the 5th Century BC contributed much to the fields of | | | | centuries today can still be seen but is covered in fields |
| both astronomy and geometry. | | | | of cotton. So it may take a little bit of imagination on |
| But as well as being home to such an important man it | | | | your part as you wander around imagining what it |
| was also famous for they way in which the city was | | | | would have been like when large ships were docked |
| designed. This was the first of cities constructed by | | | | beside its walls or in the harbour itself. |
| the Greeks that was laid out in the street grid plan that | | | | Another feature of the Ancient City of Miletus that one |
| we see in villages, towns and cities around the world | | | | must view when you come to it is the theatre. This is |
| today. The idea of laying out a settlement in this way | | | | not only one of the largest of all theatres created by |
| was considered very revolutionary, but the Romans | | | | the Greeks to remain but is among one of the best |
| liked it so much that they copied it. | | | | preserved. |