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Assos

UNESCO Tentative ListAeolian–Byzantine73 km from Çanakkale

A city on a volcanic hill facing Lesbos, with the Doric Temple of Athena on top and a small harbour far below. Aristotle lived here for a few years, and some of the temple’s reliefs are now in the Louvre.

Plan the visitIts place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow
About 2 hours

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in
Çanakkale

73 km away as the crow flies, so allow more on the road.

On a trip
Troy, Pergamon and Sardis

Day 2 of 4.

Hours and tickets
Check before you go

Opening hours and prices change: see muze.gov.tr (opens in a new tab).

Times are our estimates. Distances are straight lines.

Its place in history

Read the chapter before you go.

1000–330 BCGreeks and PersiansGreek cities grew along the Aegean coast, and in Ionia the first philosophers asked what the world was made of.

Where its treasures are now

Abroad

Temple of Athena reliefs

Held abroad; no return

Louvre (also finds in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Paris / Boston

From here

Çanakkale

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Also nearby

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    City, Hellenistic–Roman

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    Polyxena sarcophagus

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    Troy finds

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