Pergamum is an ancient Greek city located in present-day Turkey, in Asia Minor, 26 km from the Aegean Sea, on the Caicus River.
In the north and west in the city of Bergama is where the best ruins of the Hellenistic period remain, such as the Acropolis, and the Asklepeion.
Other important ruins are the Temple of Athena, the Library, the Grand Theater, the Temple of Trajan, the Altar of Zeus, the arsenal, and the cisterns.
There is also the Royal Palace, the Temple of Dionysus, along with the portable elements of the theater are wonderful constructions. The theater has the biggest slant in the world.
This city of Pergamon Together with Alexandria they were the main cultural centers of the West, the Library had more than 200.000 scrolls of parchment.
Pergamon it was an important commercial, industrial city and a medical center.
From the Acropolis you can see the entire valley and the beautiful lake, it was in such a special place that it was difficult to access, almost impassable. One of the ways to defend the Acropolis was with catapults lined up along the wall.
In 334 BC Pergamum became the domain of Alexander the Great.
The Altar of Zeus or Altar of Pergamon It belongs to the new religious constructions, very fashionable in the cities dominated by the Greeks in the XNUMXth century BC. Before the altar of sacrifices was ahead, as a secondary building, now they are very majestic and independent.
The city of Bergama is built on the ancient city of Pergamon, in very fertile lands, hence it has been highly coveted by different ancient powers, and it is known that it was inhabited since prehistoric times.
In 1878 it was when the excavations and the most important Hellenic archaeological finds began.