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Pergamon Acropolis
The Attalid capital, stepped into the Kale slope in terraces, with its steep theater and Temple of Trajan, on the World Heritage list since 2014.
Under Eumenes II the circuit walls reached their greatest extent, gathering the Sanctuary of Athena, the Great Altar terrace, and the library remembered for two hundred thousand rolls onto the upper shelves. The theater cavea is cut into the natural gradient, so the seating rests on the slope rather than on a free-standing substructure. After the Attalid bequest to Rome the city became a metropolis of the province of Asia, and the Temple of Trajan on the highest terrace carries that imperial layer.
Why visit
To look from the steep cavea steps across the Bakırçay plain and down toward the brick mass below.
Walk the Temple of Trajan columns in morning side light before you descend to the orchestra beside the stage tower.
