Excursion to Troy (Turkey) - Fascinating, romantic.

Excursion to Troy is an adventure for history lovers. The city described by Homer in the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" for many centuries seemed a myth, while the crazy lover Schliemann in 1870 did not prove his reality. Troy is located 30 kilometers from the small town of Canakkale, where on the waterfront stands a Trojan horse built for the filming of the famous film about the Trojan War.

Probably without a guide to wander around the excavations of Troy will not be so interesting, because only a specialist can tell everything in detail and show the raisins of this legendary place. We covered all the nooks, examined all 9 layers of excavations, realized that over the past centuries the sea had far gone from those places, and after all the Greeks approached Troy on ships, studied the break that the curious Trojans did to bring an unseen horse, inside which Odysseus hid with comrades.

Now Troy is a huge excavation. Troy perished and recovered at least 9 times, and all 9 layers are represented in the complex.

At the entrance to the excavation site is the Museum, where the history of the excavations is quite accessible, the city view is presented in different historical periods. By the way, a large mock-up of the Trojan horse stands at the entrance to the museum. Tourists are happy to climb inside the horse, but the queue for inspection of this miracle is rather big.

Troy is huge, the tour will take many hours, if you have a good guide. I liked most of the part that was left by Troy 4, and the city described by Homer is Troy 7. Perhaps the children and people who can not see the history behind the ruins, this trip will not seem fascinating, but, believe me, that one realization that you were where you lived, loved, Priam and Hector fought, Paris and the beautiful Helen, Achilles and Odysseus, very much decorates life.

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