Travel guide Bergama

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Bergama (Pergamon), the great ancient cultural center is to this day one of the best archaeological sites in Turkey. Above the town are the ruins of the Acropolis, a library, a theater, the Temple of Trajan and Dionysus, the monumental altar of Zeus, the sanctuary of Demeter and a Gymnaseions, spread over three terraces.
The Asclepeion in the south-west of the city was the god askulap consecrated. The Municipal Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Temple of Serapis should not be left out. The Serapis temple is under the Byzantines to a basilica has been rebuilt and was one of the seven churches of the Apocalypse.

Pergamon, Asklepieion, Turkey

Pergamon was in ancient times, mainly due to the extremely large library famous. Today you can Pergamon (today’s name: Bergama) the Acropolis (Castle Hill), the former City and the Asklepieion visit. These sites are part of the ancient Pergamon.

The Acropolis is located in the north of Bergama. You can see up there a replica of the Pergamon altar. The original is at the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island in Berlin. In addition to the Pergamon altar are the theatre, several altars, temples and the Upper Agora (the upper market place). The ancient road leads down to the old city. Here therm, temples and the Lower Agora.

On the opposite side of Bergama, about one kilometer from the lower city, is the Asklepieion, another collection of several ancient buildings, which in ancient times a very well-known resort represented. Asklepieion was famous for his excellent sanatorium and the physician Galen. Here are a spa, a small theater, the library and temples. Given that Pergamon much to see there, it is important to visit a whole day.

Izmir Bergama
Located 100 Km North Of izmir İn the Bakırcay River Basin, Bergama as one of Turkey’s oldest civilized settlements has yielded archaeological treasures of world wide importance starting from prehistoric times through the Ionic, Roman and Byzantine civilizations. Bergama which was under the rule of Alexander the Great after his invasion of the city later became the capitol city of Pergamum Kingdom which was founded in the Hellenistic period. Attalos III has left the city to the Roman Empire in 133 BC. The most important remnants found here today are a temple built by Emperor Hadrian in the name of Emperor Traian , a 10.000 seat capacity theater building, the Temple of Athena, the foundations of Zeus Altar which were brought to Berlin Museum after being unearthed, The Dionysos House in the section called Middle City, remnants of Asklepios Temple who was believed to heal people and the Serapis Temple. Some of these monuments were preserved up to the present day. The excavations in Bergama were started by Carl Humman and Alexander Conze and continued by Theodor Wiegand. A museum was established to exhibit the findings found during these excavations and the museum was opened for visit on October 30th 1936 by the governor of İzmir, Fazlı Güleç. The museum buildings consists of two hangars and two galleries surrounding an inner courtyard. In the year 1924 archaeological opuses , too, were taken to the new museum building. Most of the archaeological opuses in the museum which belong to various periods from early bronze era to the Byzantine period have been found in the excavations made in Bergama and its surrounding. The museum is open to visit everyday except Mondays between 08.30 and 17.30.
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