PERGAMON

DAY 1: EPHESUS

Explore of the well preserved archaeological sties of the Roman Empire. Once the largest harbor city and trade centre of Asia Minor, Ephesus now greets thousand of tourist from All over the world every year. You can just imagine the Celcius Library, the shops, the brothel and    the open air marble toilets!

DAY1:ŞİRNCE

This pretty old Orthodox village, 12 km away from Ephesus and 30 km from Kusadasi, was once Cirkince ("ugly"). Indeed its habitants gave this name on purpose as they did not want to be bothered by foreigners nor to share the beauty of their village.Still after years, visitors understood that the village was not ugly at all and called it Sirince ("pretty"). As the village is located on the top of a mountain, anyone will enjoy the impressive wine yards' and peach trees' views on his way.

DAY 2: PERGAMON

Pergamon is one of the important  antique cities founded by the  ancient Greeks  in the western Anatolia. In tour of Pergamon the acropole and the Asclepion are the two principal places to see in the ruins where you will see the Temple of Athena,  the library, the Royal Palaces,  the Temple of Trojan, the steepest theater of the world,  the Temple of Dionysos, the famed Altar of  Zeus and in Asclepion the ancient  medical centre or  sanatorium for the treatment of sick people flourished in the field of medicine and gained a world wide fame in the antique world.The Pergamon kingdom was famed to house more than 200 thousand scrolls of  books  in their library. They were honoured in history as the inventors of parchment paper, goat skin made paper. They kept their enormous number of books in the building called  Red Hall. Pergamons had a passion for books that made Egyptians so jealous, later Mark Antonius and Cleopatra demanded pergamon books for the Library of Alexandria.

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