aside our fellow cruise, stopping to Ayvalik is extended to to visit Pergamum, the city that in the third and second century BC became an important commercial and artistic center, nearly a second Hellenistic Athens.
the Acropolis, overlooking the valley, are well-preserved ruins of a famous library, the theater audience with its vertiginous staircase in the valley and several temples and buildings, from where he left, with the consent of the sultan turkish 'impressive altar of Zeus with the frieze of the Gigantomachy, now preserved in the museum in Berlin that this archaeological site is named.
In the plain the ruins of a temple of Serapis, it was transformed into a basilica (one of Seven Churches of Revelation) and the large and complex system dell'Askepleion, dedicated to the god Aesculapius health.
After a few days at sea and stops in bays along the coast on the island of Lesbos and Inoussa already touched at the end of May in the journey towards the Sporades, we arrive in Kusadasi , stopover to visit the archaeological site of Ephesus.
very well preserved, in its general and its major monuments, Ephesus is one of the most starordinarie visits that can be done in Turkey and one of the most interesting sites in the Mediterranean.
important commercial center of antiquity, Ephesus is still impress the witness of the life of the period and brings to our attention el'agiatezza the luxury of those who lived in this city. The famous library, the complex of painted houses reminiscent of the far more interesting environments Pompeii, the roads paved and flanked by columns, the agora and many temples and public buildings, constitute a complete document and still very much alive, of the civilizations that are alternate.
in the area, including the shady slopes of a hill, there is also the home of Mary, where the Virgin, accompanied by St. John moved after the death of Jesus, and in the plain below the tomb and the basilica of San Giovanni.
leaving the Turkish coast Fair Wind makes a stop at Samos, where, in May, had started the season. But this year the winter moves based on the island of Leros. September is now on its last legs still offers some nice days between Pythagorean, Lipsi and Leros, the first dell'alaggio in the yard next to the runway in the Gulf of departure.
An intense and great sailing season ends with the work on the disarmament of the boat. Fair Wind now rests in the heart of the Dodecanese, in a central area with respect to Cyclades and the mainland coast of southern Turkey. But this will be for next year.
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