Izmir is the 3rd largest city in population of Turkey following Istanbul and Ankara. Present Izmir is a port town facing Aegean Sea and the climate is warm. Izmir has prospered as a important position of tradein the Mediterranean Sea. It is called Smyrna in the era of the New Testament, and there was one of seven churches in the Revelation. Smyrna ruins still remain at a corner in a residential area on a hill, going up a sloping street from the center in Smyrna.The scale of the basement palace buried in the ground is very vast, and reminds us of the ancient prosperity.There appear strong concrete buildings in the background of the ruins consisted of limestone debris in the ancient rows of stores and houses. It produces a wonderful contrast between the present and the past.