Highlights of this tour:
Bergama (PERGAMON) once a great center of culture survives as one of Turkey’s finest archaeological sites. In the Acropolis, on a hill above the modern town, are the remains of the celebrated library, a steep and impressive theatre, the temples of Trojan and Dionysus, and the monumental altar of Zeus, the Demeter a gymnasium laid out on three terraces and the Agora. In town, is the site of a temple dedicated to Serapis, becoming one of the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse and subsequently converted by the Byzantines into a basilica. The Asclepion located to the southwest of the lover city, was a sanctuary dedicated to the god of health, Asclepois.

Itinerary :
Upon arrival in the ancient city of Pergamon, the tour begins at the rather impressive remains of the Acropolis which was once the cultural center of the Hellenistic Period. Just some of the highlights on view include the Library that once held 200 000 books, the steepest theater in Anatolia - Hieron, remarkable piece of engineering, Temples of Trajan and Dionysos, the Temple of Athena, the Altar of Zeus, the Sanctuary of Demeter, the terraced Gymnasium and the Agora.
Acropolis also played an important role during the beginning of Christianity in the Roman Period, and one of the Seven Churches of the Revelations is located here: Red Basilica, originally a temple of Serapis and later concerted to a church by the Byzantines.
Following a lunch break, visit the Archaeological and the Ethnographical Museums, before driving up to the Asclepion on the hilltop. This was an important medical center where people received medical treatments such as massages, mud baths, drinking of the sacred waters and the use of herbs and ointments, physical therapy, psychotherapy, diet. Diagnosis was often by dream analysis.
Asclepion was home of Galen, one of the most important physicians in the history of Medicine, he lived here in the 2nd century BC. He was specialist in anatomy, human dissection and internal medicine and some of his great 16 volume medical treatise have survived to these times.
First parchment paper made of leather was invented in Pergamon.

Drive back to your hotel.

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