Today Seabourn Odyssey visits Dikili, Turkey for Bergama. The main sites to see here include the Acropolis of Pergamon and Asclepion. Pergamon was an ancient Greek city that thrived during the Hellenistic period and was the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon.We're in port for five short hours and we'll have a lot of ground to cover. There's the Hellenistic Theater carved into the hillside. (It once accommodated 10,000 patrons at a time, despite its super steep seating.) We'll also want to see the Temple of Dionysus, maybe the Roman baths, the Acropolis, and the town of Bergama.
Asclepion is billed as "one of the foremost medical centers of classical times." My interests run a bit afield of ancient medicine, but this is something my husband will probably want to investigate.
We'll log on later to post some pictures and more commentary about our day in Dikili. Don't miss our Seabourn Odyssey blog posts, Twitter tweets, YouTube videos, and LuxuryCruiseBible.com articles.
—Andrea M. Rotondo for LuxuryCruiseBible.com
Temple of Trajan (Ancient Pergamon) photo courtesy of iStockPhoto.com
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