Troy
nine cities in one mound- Troy (Truva) 2 hours, and the museum next door
Layer upon layer of cities, from about 3000 BC to Roman times, cut through by Heinrich Schliemann’s trench in the 1870s.
🚗 Sleep in Çanakkale.
Homer to Croesus
Troy, Pergamon and Sardis
The north Aegean road runs from the mound of Troy past the hill towns of Assos and Pergamon to Sardis, capital of the Lydian kings who struck the first coins.
4 daysnights: 1 Çanakkale, 2 Bergama~250 kmas the crow flies6 places5 World Heritage3provinces
Assos
a temple above the sea- Assos 2 hours
A city on a volcanic hill facing Lesbos, with the Doric Temple of Athena on top and a small harbour far below.
🚗 about 53 km from the day before, as the crow flies. Sleep in Bergama.
Pergamon
the steepest theatre- Pergamon half a day
Capital of the Attalid kings, with a theatre that falls down one of the steepest hillsides of the ancient world.
- Pergamon Asklepion 1 hour
A healing sanctuary below the acropolis, where patients slept in the hope of a curing dream.
🚗 about 83 km from the day before, 2 km between today’s places, as the crow flies. Sleep in Bergama.
Sardis and Bin Tepe
the Lydian kings- Sardis 2 hours
Capital of Lydia and of King Croesus, where some of the first coins were struck.
- Bin Tepe Tumuli 1 hour
The Lydian royal cemetery: more than a hundred burial mounds on the ridge north of Sardis.
🚗 about 103 km from the day before, 9 km between today’s places, as the crow flies. End in İzmir.
Distances are straight lines between places, so allow more on the road. Times on site are our estimates.