PERGAMON DAY TOUR
Tour Highlights
Situated on top of a windswept mountain along the Turkish coastline and looking over the beautiful Aegean Sea sit the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon.
Although the majority of its monuments now sit in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum, enough remains of the Acropolis for visitors to understand how this city once dominated the entire region and how it rivaled Alexandria, Ephesus & Antioch in culture and commerce.ın addition, advancements in Science and medicine in Pergamon contributed great largely to today’s field of modern medicine, largely due to the efforts of Roman physician Galen.
Our day tour commences with picking up our guests from hotels in Selçuk and Kuşadası. We then drive (3 hours) to the site of Pergam on where we will commence our tour, which includes:
Asclepion and Health Centre
The Acropolis
The Sanctuary of Trajan (also known as the Trajaneum)
The Sanctuary of Athena
The Upper Agora
The Roman baths complex
The Arsenal
The Hellenistic Theatre with a seating capacity of 10,000. This had the steepest seating of any known theatre in the Ancient World
The Temple of Dionysus
The original location of Zeus Altar
The Red. Basilica, originally a temple of Serapis
Lunch
Tour Information:
With Departure From : Kuşadası/Selçuk
Availability : Private Tour all year round
Guiding Languages : English - For other guiding languages, it will be taken extra charge.
- Museum Entrance Fees
- Lunch
- Air-conditioned transport
- Guiding in English
- Tax
- Drinks at lunchtime