Daily Pergamon and Asklepion Tour

After breakfast, you will be picked-up by your guide then drive to the ancient city of Pergamon near the town named Bergama today. The Acropolis of Pergamon towers over the northern end of Bergama. It is divided, into the upper and the middle cities with residential areas between them on slopes too steep for civic buildings. To visit the Acropolis you take the cable car to reach the top oh the hill. And you will see; Temple of Trajan, which was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in 2C AD. The steepest theater of the ancient world when was constructed in 3C BC, rebuilt by Eumenes II again and has 10,000 seats. The temple of Dionysus located on the North of theater.  And some others suc as; bath complex, agora, tempel of Demeter, gate of Eumenes, house of Attalus etc. After pergamon, we drive to Asklepion, a Greco-Roman city where the death shall not enter. There was a healing complex and hospital, built in 4C BC on behalf of Asclepius. It was one of the most important cities with their healing methods and architecture. Asklepion is also a Roman city where they built theater with 3,500 capacity. Temples and sanctuaries. The cut stone with two serpent relief has become the symbol of medicine. After the tour, you will be driven back to your hotel.