At 09:00 we arrived at the bus station of Izmir, and immediately, we hopped onto a bus to Bergama, the town where the famous Classical ruined city of Pergamon lies. We hired a taxi from Bergama's otogar (bus station) to the ruins. I was quite excited about seeing the ruined city of Pergamon, largely due to my 2003 visit of Berlin's Pergamon Museum, where Pergamon's high altar is restored and displayed in a majestic way. The site of the Acropolis pretty much in ruins, with a few notable structures, including the Trajaneum (where a headless marble statue in Roman armor stood in a courtyard). The most impressive structure in Pergamon is the Greek theatre, claiming to be the steepest theatre in the ancient world. At the theatre's lower end, we stopped by the Temple of Dionysus, paying a little respect to the God of pleasure and wine, before leaving the Acropolis.
