Izmir Part 2

I think this was one of my favorite things. It is the Library of Celsus. It was built in the 2nd century A.D. as a tomb for a Roman senator named T.Iulius Celsus Polemaenus. It was destroyed by earthquakes and fires in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 1970's.
The details on the ceiling were so beautiful, I could've easily stayed staring up at them for hours.
This is our family in front of the Hadrian temple, in an out-of sequence-photo.
This view of the library may give a better idea of it's scale. The day we were there was not terribly crowded. Just a group of Turkish teenagers, and another big group of Japanese tourists. Our group was just our family and a couple from Zurich, Switzerland who spoke German and English.
These are replicas of statues that represent the virtues of Celsus, this particular one represents "character."
One of the saddest things about touring all these incredible ruins in Turkey is that so many of them have been removed from the country and taken to other museums around the world. Most of the things missing are in Berlin. The originals of these statues are in Vienna.