Pergamon (Bergama)

Pergamon is high on a hilltop with magnificent views to the modern town of Bergama and beyond.

Founded by one of Alexander the Great’s generals, it was a major centre in antiquity. Nowadays there are just a few columns, the amphitheatre built into the hillside, and a couple of massive buildings on the edge of the modern town. There’s a cable car up to the hilltop site.

How much more wonderful it must have been before the Germans carted off all the best bits to Berlin in the 19th Century . . . .