Historic sites

Jerash

Jordan Jerash Jarash

Jerash
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

One of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities in the world, with a colonnaded street, the oval forum, temples, theatres and Hadrian's Arch. A chariot race show is held at the hippodrome.


It's about an hour north of Amman. Included in the Jordan Pass.

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