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Behramkale, Assos

Behramkale (Assos)

Assos, the famous teaching center of antiquity is 87 km south of Canakkale in Ayvacik County.Aristotle, Plato’s most famous student was invited to Assos, and spent more than three years living and teaching there. He married the niece of Hermeia, founded a school of philosophy and conducted his first explorations in zoology, biology and botany. behramkale The Acropolis of Assos (Behramkale) is 238 meters above sea level. The Temple of Athena on this site was in the 6th Century BC This Doric temple is built restored to its former glory and role as guardian of the Biga Peninsula and the Gulf of Edremit. Linger the moonlight through the temple ruins to see, scattered or get up early for the gently awakening dawn over the acropolis.
From the top you can take in the magnificent views of the Gulf of Edremit and appreciate why this heavenly location was on the terraces descending to the sea are elected Athenagoras, a gymnasium and a theater from the northern corner of the Acropolis, you see a mosque , a bridge and a fortress, all in the 14 Century by the Ottoman Sultan Murat I. Down below lies a built in small and idyllic ancient harbor. Assos has gained the reputation as a center of Turkish art with its lively, friendly and Bohemian atmosphere This may be the holiday you are for years to remember to twenty-five come kilometers west of Behramkale, in the village is the old Gulpiar city of Chryse where the 2nd . Century BC Temple of Apollo Smintheus is located. Babakale, a picturesque village of houses, which falls on a terraced cliff into the sea 15 km west of Gulpinar on an unmarked path follows the rugged coastline.