Terrace Houses or Houses on the Slope, Selçuk, İzmir, Turkey
One of the attractions that you can see in the ancient city of Ephesus ruins is the Terrace houses. Its location is on a hill opposite the Temple of Hadrian. These houses are also considered as the “Houses of Rich”. This certain fact gives an idea of what kind of a family life there is in the period of the Romans. These kinds of houses in Ephesus are also called Slope houses or hill houses because they are being built at the slope of a hill.
The houses of rich were built by integrating the Hippodamian plan. This is the city’s plan wherein in right angles, the roads are being transacted. In the slopes lower end of the Bulbul Mountain, there are three terraces, consisting of six residential units. In 1st century BC, the first and the oldest building was established and continued as a residential house up until the 7th century AD.
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