Regular Tour Price

Tour Programme

TOTAL DRIVING

Kusadasi Depart

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Pergamon, Acropolis&Asclepion Old Medical Center.

From Kusadasi: 256 ml-412 km

From Izmir        : 150 ml-240 km

Izmir Depart

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DESCRIPTION – PERGAMON&ASCLEPION TOUR ( With Lunch )

You will be met at Harbour, Airport or at your Hotel in Izmir or Kusadasi. Our guide will hold up a sign

with your name on it. Then join the Pergamon and Akslepion Tour for half day. After pick up we will drive to

Bergama City. It is a 1.30 hour drive from  Izmir to Pergamon. It take 3 hours drive from Kusadasi to Pergamon.

Pergamon had a significant place of its own in all Asia. Historically the city was the capital of the greatest

kingdom that existed in this region. The city is situated at 100 kms north of Izmir. The Roman historian Pliny

called it: "By far the most famous city in all Asia". The cause for this importance was this: When John wrote his

letter, Pergamon had been a capital city for almost four hundred years. After the mythical times, Pergamon had

been the scene of several cultures, ranging from those of the Stone and Bronze Ages until the Archaic and

Classical Periods. Among the temples, palaces and agoras, the Asclepion, which were constructed in the course

of one century, belonged the big Zeus Altar and the Parchment Library. They stand as the most brilliant works of

art of the fourth and third century B.C. in Anatolia. The Parchment Library housed the most famous collection of

books of that time, written on a type of processed lamb and goat skins. This was a process invented in

Pergamum, when the rulers of Ptolemean Egypt embargoed the export of Egyptian papyrus sheets to Pergamon.

Other magnificent buildings of this period are the Temple of Athena and those of Demeter and Dyonisos.

Asclepion was known under the name of "The Pergamon God of Health". In ancient times there were in this

part of the world three favorite religious shrines and holy places. They were: the Artemision of Ephesus, the

Apollo cult of Delphi and that of Asklepios Pergamon. Asclepios the deity health and medicine served the people

for several hundred years; thus making Pergamon a medical center of very great importance. Famous medical

scholars, like Hippocrates and Galenus, were born in Pergamon and worked there.

After The Lunch We will continou to drive to Red Basilica, Photo break time for the Red Basilica,

Red  Basilica, The massive structure was built in the early 2nd century (under Hadrian) as a temple to the popular Egyptian god Serapis. It was later (4th-5th centuries) converted into a Byzantine church. The Red Basilica was destroyed in the Arab raids of 716 to 717 AD, after which a smaller church was built within the ruins.

Afterwards, you drive back to Harbour, Airport or your hotel in Kusadasi or Izmir.

A MEAL INCLUDED MODERATE ACTIVITY NATURAL BEUTY

WHAT TO BRING!
Camera, Hat, Comfortable Footwear, Soft Drinks, Sun Cream, Sun Glasses.
INCLUDED IN PRICE!
Professional English speaking guides, Lunch, AC Mini Bus, All entrance fees where necessary, All Local taxes. EXCLUDED IN PRICE Drinks, Red Basilica.