By Corey Sandler, Destination Consultant Silversea Cruises
Dikili is a lesser-visited port of the great nation of Turkey. But it allows entry to a remarkable place of history: Pergamon.
Pergamon is cited in the Book of Revelation as one of the seven churches of Asia. (Another was at Ephesus.)
Pergamon’s library on the Acropolis (the ancient Library of Pergamum) was the second best in the ancient Greek civilization, behind only the Great Library of Alexandria.
The library at Pergamon was believed to contain 200,000 volumes, which Mark Antony later gave to Cleopatra as a wedding present.
Pergamon was also a flourishing center for the production of parchment, which had been used in Asia minor long before the rise of the city.
The site is today easily accessible by the Bergama Acropolis Gondola from the base station in northeastern Bergama.
A PERGAMON ALBUM
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The Asclepion, named after the god of health, is reached via a sacred road lined with monuments and architectural fragments.
The Asclepion was a center of learning and science, along with a rehabilitation center and a sacred spring: a little bit of everything.
There are some major ruins still in place, and descriptions of the city but the most significant piece of architecture lies about two thousand miles or three thousand kilometers away, in Berlin, Germany.
A major museum in the heart of the city completed in 1930, the museum holds the reconstructed Great Altar of Pergamon and the Market Gate of Miletus, both transported from Turkey.
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