Kusadasi is a popular resort town on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, about 95 km from Izmir, the principal metropolitan center. The nature has been very generous; sandy beaches (e.g.Ladies Beach), beautiful landscape and hot Mediterranean climate, making it one of the top destinations on the Aegean coast. Kusadasi handles huge number of tourists to Ephesus every season from the cruise lines.
Like all other cities in the area civilization has started very early; Pygela now today is within the perimeter of Kusadasi was an outpost of the world famous Ephesus which is only 27 km away. The first settlers were Lelegs 3000 BC then Aeolians 11th and Ioniansand 9th C BC followed them. In the centuries followed they were ruled by the Lydians, then Persians 546 BC, Alexander 334 BC and from then onwards by the Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans.
