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Bergama
Bergama (Pergamon), once a great center of culture, survives
as one of Turkey's finest archaeological sites. In the Acropolis,
on a hill above the modern town, are the remains of the
celebrated library, a steep and impressive theatre, the
temples of Trajan and Dionysus, the monumental altar of
Zeus, the sanctuary of Demeter, a gymnasium laid out on
three terraces and the Agora. The Asclepion, located to
the southwest of the lower city, was a sanctuary dedicated
to the god of health, Asclepios. In town, visit the Archaeological
and Ethnographical Museum; nearby, is the site of a temple
dedicated to Serapis, becoming one of the Seven Churches
of the Apocalypse, and subsequently converted by the Byzantines
into a basilica.
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