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BERGAMA / PERGAMON - EXCURSIONS |
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. |