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Pergamon
The ancient city of Pergamon is where the parchment paper is invented and the name comes from the parchment. The library of the city has an important place in history. Pergamon Antique City is one of the twelve aeolians city states established on the coast of the aegean sea in western Anatolia. It is located on the Caicus River, today Bakırçay River which flows into the aegean sea.
To Arrive Pergamon
Pergamon Ancient City is located in İzmir Province of Turkey. The city is located in Bergama district of İzmir province. The town of Bergama is approximately 110km and 1 hour 40 minutes away from İzmir city center. You can go directly to Bergama via motorway from the center of Izmir. If you want to go by a suburban train, you can go as far as neighboring district Aliağa. You can get on this suburban train in the Adnan Menderes Airport. This suburban train call as İZBAN. Pergamon Antique City is approximately 135 km and 2 hours away from Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir.
When you get to the center of Bergama district, Because of Pergamon is a very big city, you have to spend a lot of time to visit all the buildings. It is in extreme and uncomfortable temperature during summer days.
Bergama Museum, Asklepion Healing Centre of Pergamon, Pergamon Acropolis and Red Hall (Red Basilica, Red Court) of Pergamon are worth seeing. The others except the acropolis are in the city center. It can be visited on foot. You can see many artifacts, especially the first tools used in medicine history in the Bergama Museum. There ıs a statue of Egyptian God Sekhmet in Red Hall.
Pergamon Acropolis
The acropolis of Bergama is located on a hill 4 km away from the city center. You can go here by land or by cable car. If you go by cable car, you can see all the city and historical buildings very well. The view of the Acropolis is magnificent.
In the acropolis of the city, the theater, the roman house, Sanctuary of Demeter, the gymnasium and the trajan temple are worth seeing. The theater of the ancient city of Pergamon is one of the steepest theaters in the world. If you do not pay attention when walking, you can easily roll down. There are many ornaments and figures in the Roman house. You can also see the bases of the Temple of Zeus, now exhibited in the Pergamon Museum in Germany.
Since the acropolis of the ancient city of Pergamon is built on a hill, you must walk downwards to see the roman house, and you must go upwards while you are back. This can make you very tired. Consider this situation on hot summer days.
Pergamon Asklepion
It is one of the first hospitals in the world. There is treatment building, temple, theater, tunnels, sleeping rooms and lots of other things. You can see the symbols of medicine, snake figures, on many stones. People from many parts of the ancient world came here to be treated.