OUr first stop was the Sanctuary of Asclepius. Form there I could see te Acropolis.

A plan of how the hospital / health scam / temple was laid out

This sign says that what we are going to see is how it was laid out in the second centruy A.D.

THere was less reconstruction here than at some other sites, but it has something special about it. Perhaps it was the fact that there were so few other visitors that I could walk around anywhere I wanted.

Near the amphitheatre which could hold about 3,500 people.

After being evaluated at the front gate (patients they didn't think they could cure were sent elsewhere), new arrivals were lead through this passageway. It was filled with smoke and priests spoke to the patients through the holes in the top.

Even today the water flowing along the side has a soothing sound.

The really white columns in the middle were made of styrofoam. they were part of a perfromance.

These columns, on the other hand, were real.

I suppose one could use the size of an amphitheatre to estimate the size of the local population.

Columns apparently lined the major streets.

I wondered why these two walls were built with about a yard of space between them. I suppose that over several hundred years of development, this is what happens.

I have no idea if there was once a building here or if someone simply did a reconstruction.

I wondered if more would be reconstucted over the next 50 or 100 years or if the site will always look like this.

The entrance to the Acropolis site. I'm sure the sign was telling us something important. The Acropolis (high city) is about 900 feet up and commands the surrounding territory. This was a very important site for both the Greeks and the Romans for a long time. Only the richest/most important lived up here. Everyone else lived down below.

This amphitheatre could hold about 10,000 people. It is the most steeply sloped of the known Greek theatres.