You may be able to read the arch over the entrance to Tarsus which reads, “The Center of the Ancient World,” though to most people that seems a dubious claim. Nonetheless, Taursians are quite as proud of their modern inland manufacturing town these days, as they were in the past. The city is most famous for being the birthplace of St. Paul sometime around the year 0. Many of the sites you will see here, and there are quite a few, are named after him.