Another Amazing Ruin at Permigmom

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  Bergama, İzmir, Turkey
Sunday, September 23, 2012

The ancient city of Permigmom sits high on a hill and requires a cable car to get to it. It was the second largest cultural centre in the world after Alexandria in Egypt. The original city wall dates back to 12th century BC and had a population of 100,000. It remained at peace with various conquests happening around it until 405AD when it ceased to exist. After it inhabitants rejected Christianity, they all suicided on April 1st by jumping offthe city walls. Permigmom discovered parchment paper, was the home of Hippocrates and the Centre of Medicine, had the first known hospital and had a library of 200,000 books. Once again, Mehmet, our guide brought it to life.
Second stop was the ancient city of Troy or Troia as the turks call it. This was also a huge seaport in its time. The sea is now 12 kilometres away. Not much remains here now but they have done some excavations of the 9 different civilisations of Troy that existed from 3000BC to 500AD when it ceased to exist because the sea was no longer close so the people left..We relied on Mehmet to bring it to life since there's not a lot of ruins to look at. We had fun on the replica of the Trojan horse though.

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Departing Crowne Plaza	2	3	On the bus
Ancient city of Permigmom on the hill	Catching cable car to the top	The View	At the top - more stalls and a dog
Looking down on Bergama	2	City Walls	more of the ruins
Ruins	The Temple	Temple	Water reservoir
Original City Walls - 12th century BC	City Walls	Ancient Aquaduct	Water Supply Info
Piece of Glass Jewellery   Comments!	The huge amphitheatre with amazing acoustics	The Trajan Temple	Beautifully intricate work
Us at the Temple	Menai High School Dragon Mascot	The stairs into the amphitheatre	Entering the amphitheatre
More of the Amphitheatre	Mode of Transport	Troy and the replica of the Trojan Horse	Trojan Horse
Illustration of the 9 civilisations of Troy(Troia)	More illustrations of Troy's history	Replica of city	The original stone wall
Original wall of house.	More details of Troy's History	Stone ramp used to bring goods from sea to city	Site of Temples
Small amphitheatre	Our beautiful location for dinner -	At Dinner	The Restaurant

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