With 3000-Year History of Assos

Located at the edge of the Gulf of Edremit in western Anatolia, Assos, a history stretching back to ancient times, sea, a lovely village nature. Old houses and villages made of andesite stone trying to sell their products from the villagers through a very windy and cold in the air, we climbed up the hill.

An important place in antiquity as the Temple of Athena in Assos has approximately 230 meters height. the sixth century before Christ the temple in the middle, all the village, overlooking the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and continues.

Assos rectangular planned, the oldest in Anatolia today from several columns of Doric-style temple remains. Temple, the agora, theater and other traces of nested time Bahramkale Village and is trying to resist. There are quite a good mood as of the hill located. The location of the island of Lesbos, one of the clearest display again from the temple to the village in a beautiful mosque without a minaret, while we see.

Part of Mytilene in the region Hüdavendigar Assos mosque dating from the Byzantine and Roman periods were made using re stones.

Assos, also known under the name Behramkale or Behramköy. Within the village to the hill slopes along the Albanian villagers kaldırımlı sell their products while they are machines. Early morning and very windy when we went because the machines even if the newly opened, you had the chance to take the famous thyme. With the smell of lemon thyme and the mountains are really beautiful. Some of the houses in the area operated as accommodation and restaurants.