Pergamon Asklepion

UNESCO World HeritageRomanin Bergama

A healing sanctuary below the acropolis, where patients slept in the hope of a curing dream. Galen, the most famous doctor of the Roman world, was born in Pergamon and studied here as a young man.

Plan the visit Its place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow

About 1 hour

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in

Bergama

The place is in town.

On a trip

Troy, Pergamon and Sardis

Day 3 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.

330 BC–AD 330Hellenistic and RomanAlexander’s successors and then Rome filled Anatolia with theatres, libraries, baths and colonnaded streets.

From here

Next on the trip · Day 4

Sardis

About 103 km as the crow flies. Capital of Lydia and of King Croesus, where some of the first coins were struck.

The whole trip

Troy, Pergamon and Sardis

4 days, 6 places, Çanakkale to Manisa.

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