While it is possible to visit the Turkish Aegean coast public service, a network of buses, minibuses and taxis dolmus or communicate the different cities and towns, the ideal rent a car at the airport in Istanbul, Turkey recognized the English driving license and take westbound. Turkey has a small portion of the Aegean coast in Europe, the Gallipoli peninsula that connects Thrace to Anatolia, where troops were stationed in the almogávares early fourteenth century, an epic that has been the inspiration for one of the best novels of Ramon J. Sender, Byzantium. These soldiers had gone to
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help the Byzantines in the fights against Turks who had set their sights across the strait. Ends Gallipoli in the Dardanelles, the access channel between the Mediterranean and the Sea of \u200b\u200bMarmara and the scene of fierce fighting during the First World War which killed nearly four hundred thousand soldiers, Australians and New Zealanders mostly as remember those who have seen Gallipoli (1981) with Mel Gibson at the beginning of his career. Local travel agencies organize tours to the stage of the contest, the local museum and the Memorial Anzak which are engraved the words of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the father of the Republic of Turkey which was released just this scenario: "Rest in peace, there is no difference between Mehmets Johnies and were buried together here in this country of ours, you, you sent your mother sons from faraway countries, dry your tears, your sons rest in peace. "
Across the Strait, and in Asia, stands the castle of Çanakkale in the midst of a quiet fishing village where we can eat fish and seafood accompanied a good Raki, the local anise is taken mixed with water, on the seafront and plan excursions to Troy located just over fifty miles. Archaeologist German Heinrich Schliemann began excavating
Troy in 1870, finding the remains of four settlements dating between 3,000 and 1,800 BC It is believed that the Troy of the Iliad is the Troy VI (1800-1275 BC). Today there are large remains of the city, but rather a series of trenches, remains of walls and a great horse at the entrance to an archeological site testify to what it was. However, there are so many references that we have on the city, the result of our readings or films we've seen, that it will not be difficult to reconstruct with the help of the imagination, after all there were Paris, Helen, Achilles Agamemnon, Hector, Nestor, many gods of Olympus as Zeus, Athena and, moreover, we still Homer.
Following the road south arrive at Assos, a city that hosted, among others,
Aristotle and his pupil Alexander the Great to conquer it soon. From the temple of Athena that dominates the Acropolis can contemplate a spectacular view of the coast and in the distance, the Greek island of Lesvos. Along the road that leads to Ayvalık there are plenty of restaurants, hotels and beaches that allow us to rest. This part of the Aegean is chosen as a summer resort of the inhabitants of Istanbul. From Ayvalık you can go to the island of Lesvos or boat Alibey ferry. Bergama, the ancient Pergamum, is only 50 km. This city gave its name to the parchment and in antiquity was one of the most important libraries in the world with some 200,000 volumes, including papyrus and parchment. The contents of the library was provided by Julius Caesar to Cleopatra, as compensation for the burning of Alexandria. Pergamon history is a history of losses, first ceased to be one of the capitals of memory and later led one of the most beautiful temples of antiquity. In the late nineteenth Human Carl received authorization from the Sultan Abdul Hamid II to be the altar of Zeus Berlin, famous for its reliefs that currently on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Little remains of the once rival of Alexandria, but it's worth making a stop on the way up to the Acropolis, walking in the agora, see the Byzantine walls or enter the archaeological museum has a good collection of statues.
We are not far from Izmir, the third largest city in Turkey, the largest port in the Aegean, and equipped with an airport with international connections and three universities. The history of this city is similar to the phoenix, founded in the third millennium BC was destroyed by the Lydians, rebuilt by Alexander the Great, later became a Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman. Smyrna lived a second golden age in the nineteenth century as one of the scales speaking Release of Lebanese writer Amin Maauf, a commercial port inhabited by Ottoman Greeks, Levantine, Sephardic Jews and Turks, and burned at the end of the Turkish Liberation War in 1922, shortly after finally change its name, losing in Smyrna, in the context of reforms of the Republic of Turkey. We can see the remains of the past at the Archaeological Museum, the Agora and the old town, also called the Konak, dominated by a clock tower with a gift from Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1901. Along the waterfront are some nineteenth-century houses that survived the fire, if we can relax do it in a cafe on the riverside, lost in the bazaars and dinner and the Çiçek Pasajı. This city of three million people are endowed with the best accommodations, restaurants, nightclubs and bars. Izmir is still maintaining the spirit of the metropolis of the eastern Mediterranean, welcoming travelers as well as it has done over millennia. Do not forget to try the local specialty, the köfte Izmirlian, a meatball with tomato sauce, and the COP system, some kebabs, accompanied by tomatoes, eggplant and grilled onions.
About 80 kilometers to the west is Çeşme, whose Bay took place the destruction of the Turkish fleet by Russia in 1770. From this time the Ottomans began to make alliances with other nations such as Spain in 1782, ending four centuries of naval warfare
in the Mediterranean, such as Lepanto, which took the author of Don Quixote. One of the best locations to see the bay of Cesme is the castle of the XIV century Genoese overlooking the harbor, the old town has several mosques in the eighteenth century wooden houses where you can eat and buy antiques and souvenirs. From Çeşme is a daily connection to the Greek island of Chios by ferry or you can go to Ilica beach, located 4 km which has thermal water sources.
Izmir Returning to the road along the coast to the south came to Ephesus, one of the most important places of the Eastern Mediterranean until the sixth century its port is flooded, then abandoned the city. Today we can see the remains of the Roman city of Ephesus, its streets, the harbor, homes, theaters and the Celsus Library which had 14,000 scrolls and two-level façade
housed in their niches statues of the four virtues. It is advisable to visit the ruins early in the morning, before the marble is preheated and enter the archaeological museum with two beautiful statues of Artemis, bronzes like Eros on the dolphin and the celebrated Priapus. Ephesus has two Roman theaters, the largest, with capacity for 24,000 spectators witnessed anti-Christian revolt, caused by a reaction to a sermon of St. Paul in AD 60. Worshippers of Artemis were not welcome this new cult and Paul had to flee. This city played an important role in the beginnings of Christianity, both in letters to the Ephesians, for which, according to the Council of 431, four or five years after the crucifixion John and the Mother of Christ was established in Ephesus. At Mount Bülbül there a Marian shrine where the house where Mary lived. This is a place of pilgrimage both Christians, has been visited by Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and Muslims, the Qur'an recognizes the virginity of the Mother of Jesus Christ and devotes several suras in Chapter III as the 45 "When they said angels: O Mary, surely God will announce the divine word, your name will be Christ Jesus the son of Mary, illustrious in this world, and in the other, and one of the approximate to God. "
From Ephesus we
reconnect with the sea or go to Pamukkale Kusadasi on the road E78 to Denizli. Turkish Pamukkale means cotton castle, is a seaside resort with hot springs known for limestone bathtubs White, one of the wonders of Turkey. The sunsets, with the golden glow on the stone bathtubs and the sound of water running down the side make this a magical space. Nearby are the ruins of Hierapolis Roman theater and baths, some still in use. It is possible to swim in these therapeutic waters and swim in a scenario of oleanders in bloom and remains of columns.
Kusadasi is very close to Ephesus, the port where cruise ships cast anchor and one of the favorite vacation spots by the Turks, so souvenir shops abound,
restaurants, bars, hotels and nightclubs. If you want to escape the noise is possible in the sandy beaches near the town or go for the promenade to the Genoese Castle, situated on an island near the port which is accessed by a boardwalk. From Kusadasi you can make trips to Aphrodisias, Pamukkale, Miletus and Didyma by land or take the ferry to the Greek island of Samos. Every day a ship during this journey that lasts just over an hour and a half and costs about 25 €. This island, the easternmost of the Aegean and one of the largest, has multiple ports and an airport with flights to Athens and Kos. It is a green island with mountains, monasteries, villages, archaeological sites and everything you need to meet the needs of the traveler. The famous mathematician Pythagoras was born in Samos around the year 580 BC, and Hera, the wife of Zeus.
. Paul Martin Ahasuerus by signals that had a cousin married to a Chilean and although he had never been in Chile, had done so through books, from La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla to confess I have lived Pablo Neruda, and his grandfather, Vicente Ahasuerus, he met the Chilean poet in the Madrid of the First Republic, when he was a medical student. The event was attended by staff of the Institute Cervantes, friends and the accredited diplomatic colony in Istanbul as Jak Hayim, Honorary Consul of Peru, Manuel Ochoa, Embassy of Venezuela or Haluk and Ebru Sanver, Honorary Consul of Chile in Istanbul. 
. Paul Martin Ahasuerus by signals that had a cousin married to a Chilean and although he had never been in Chile, had done so through books, from La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla to confess I have lived Pablo Neruda, and his grandfather, Vicente Ahasuerus, he met the Chilean poet in the Madrid of the First Republic, when he was a medical student. The event was attended by staff of the Institute Cervantes, friends and the accredited diplomatic colony in Istanbul as Jak Hayim, Honorary Consul of Peru, Manuel Ochoa, Embassy of Venezuela or Haluk and Ebru Sanver, Honorary Consul of Chile in Istanbul. 
