Sardes or Sardis, was an ancient city at the location of modern Sart in Turkey's Manisa Province. Sardes was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, one of the important cities of the Persian Empire, the seat of a proconsul under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the province Lydia in later Roman and Byzantine times.

According to the known history of Sardes where the money is first pressed. As one of the Seven churches of Asia, it was addressed by the author of the Book of Revelation in terms which seem to imply that its population was notoriously soft and fainthearted. Its importance was due, first to its military strength, secondly to its situation on an important highway leading from the interior to the Aegean coast, and thirdly to its commanding the wide and fertile plain of the Hermus.

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The major historical buildings in the ancient city of Sardes are:

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• Acropolis

• Gymnasium

• Temple of Artemis

• Synagogue

• Bath

• Courthouse

• House

• Tomb

• Bin Tepe