Şirince is a hill village eight kilometres east of Selçuk, perched on a steep slope of stone houses, narrow lanes, and old Greek churches. The village was largely abandoned after the 1923 population exchange, fell into ruin for half a century, and was rediscovered in the 1980s as a tourist destination when its restored houses started opening as pansiyons and the local wine industry took hold.
The village now lives off day-trippers from Ephesus and overnight romantics. The fruit wines — peach, blackberry, pomegranate, and (the local original) lokal red — are uneven but the better producers are seriously good. The Sunday market is the time to come if you can. The Nesin Mathematics Village, an unusual academic retreat founded by the writer Aziz Nesin, is just below the village and accepts visitors.