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ÇEŞME
MUSEUM
History of Çeşme Museum
One of the historical and cultural values
of Çeşme District worth seeing is the Çeşme
Fort. Çeşme Fort has been constructed in
1508, during the period of Beyazıt II. It
has been had constructed by Aydın Governor
Mir Haydar to Architect Ahmet oğlu Mehmet.
Çeşme Archeology museum is located in the
fort, which reached today being preserved
in a very good way.
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Çeşme museum
has been opened to visit for
the first time in 1965 as a
gun museum with the guns brought
from İstanbul Topkapı Museum
and continued its function in
this way until 1984. Since the
guns in the museum have been
oxidized and begun to deform
due to the excess humidity in
the hall, they have been transferred
to İzmir Archeology and Ödemiş
Museums. The same exhibition
hall has been arranged and used
for the exhibition of the works
obtained from the rescue excavations
made in Ildırı (Erythrai) archaic
city, which have been continuing
since 1964. God and goddess
sculptures made of cooked earth,
busts, marble sculptures, silver
and bronze coins, golden frames,
amphora are being exhibited.
Most important of the visible
ruins in Ildırı (Erythrai) is
the city walls. Besides this,
acropolis and the theatre in
north of it and the villa buildings
found in the excavations made
in the north of the acropolis,
Athena temple belonging to the
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Archaic Period,
the church constructed in Byzantine
period, Roman villa and mosaics
at the location called as Cennettepe,
the bath building constructed
in Late - Roman - Byzantine
Period can be seen.
The visitors can visit the military
and civil buildings found as
the result of the excavations
and researches carried out in
Ildırı (Erythrai) archaic city,
against no charge.
Tel: (232) 712 66 09
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