Posts in Tag: Roman Ruins
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Merida – Spain’s Roman City
In my first post from the Extremadura I gave seven reasons for visiting this most untouristy and interesting area of Spain. In this post I’ll focus in on one of those reasons, the Roman legacy of the city of Merida and its surrounding area. Whether its theatres, amphitheatres, hippodromes, Roman baths, villas, bridges, aqueducts, temples […]
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Philippi and Kavala – Via Egnatia Continued
This is my third post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by Victor Romagnoli since crossing over into Greece from Turkey. In the first of those posts we visited the border city of Alexandroupoli and in the second spent some time in the magnificent Dadia National Park. Today we will move on to […]
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Side – Greco/Romans Ruins Amid a Modern Town
Today marks our final journey along the Mediterranean Coast on this Adventures Abroad trip through western Turkey led by expert Turkish guide Yasemin Reis. In the last post we visited the wondrous ruins of Perge, one of the first places where St. Paul preached the new Christian religion. We will depart from the city of […]
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Perge – Walking in the Footsteps of St. Paul
In the last post from this ongoing series on western Turkey with Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad we visited the great theatre of Aspendos and marvelled at the Roman engineering feat of the inverted siphon aqueduct that brought water to that city. In this post we’ll visit Perge, a much larger archaeological site not far […]
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Phaselis – Romantic Forested Ruins by the Sea
In this post we continue our journey through western Turkey with Adventures Abroad guide Yasemin Reis as we enter the Province of Antalya. It is as rich in archaeological sites as any area in Turkey as we will find out over the next few days. Our first stop in the province was a visit to […]
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Ephesus – Visiting Turkey’s Most Impressive Ruins
Chances are if you’ve never been to Turkey you will have three major tourism sites on your agenda – Hagia Sophia, which we’ve already visited, Cappadocia which is coming up and Ephesus which we are visiting today. These are far and away the most visited places by foreign tourists and this tour of western Turkey […]
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Pergamon – Visiting Turkey’s Roman Stronghold
This is the fourth day of the Adventures Abroad trip that Alison and I took to Turkey in October, 2021. Yesterday we left Istanbul and toured the battlefields of Gallipoli and then visited the almost mythical site of ancient Troy. Today we are headed to Pergamon another ancient city. Unlike Troy which has nine layers […]