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BERGAMA TRAVEL AND HISTORY
By admin | February 28, 2008
One of the essential arts cities in the civilization Region is Bergama (Pergamum). The Asclepion, which was digit of the maximal hospitals in history, is settled to the westerly of the city, which was a enthusiastic edifice of culture, prowess and penalization in ancient times. There are diapsid friezes, which were the symbolisation of Asclepius engraved at the incoming of the infirmary constructed to immortalize Asclepius, the simulacrum of health. This symbolisation after became the symbolisation of scrutiny science. anatomist of Pergamum, the famous physician, experienced penalization here. The most essential architectural monuments of metropolis are settled in the acropolis, easterly of the town. The famous accumulation with 200,000 books, the Temples of Pallas and Trajaneum, the steepest stadium in the concern and the foundations of the Altar of Zeus, which is digit of the prowess wonders of the concern are settled here. Today, the whole table of Zeus is in the metropolis Museum in Berlin.
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March 5th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
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