One hour south by car: the ruins of Ephesus. Once a city of 250,000 souls — traders, scholars, pilgrims. The Library of Celsus still stands, its façade reconstructed, columns precise against an empty sky. Marble streets worn smooth by two thousand years of footfall. Theatre seating for twenty-four thousand. Go early, before the heat descends and the tour groups arrive. A private guide adds necessary context — the politics, the trade routes, the reasons this city mattered. But the stones speak plainly enough on their own. You will walk through what remains. You will return to the villa quieter than you left. Some places reorder your sense of scale.