Tourists Way: Petra Jordan ~ سما نيو

السبت، 7 نوفمبر 2015

The jewel of South Jordan

is Petra, the unique 2,000-

year-old rock-carved city.

Carved entirely into the rose-red

cliffs, the remains of the once lost

Nabataean city of Petra includes

temples, theaters, monasteries,

houses and roads. Petra flourished

for over 400 years around

the time of Rome and Christ, until it was occupied by

the Roman legions of the emperor Trajan in 106 A.D.

The Petra basin boasts over 800

individual monuments that were mostly carved from

the kaleidoscopic sandstone by the technical and

artistic genius of the Arab Nabataeans

Petra live cams

The drama of visiting Petra starts with the journey into the mountain-ringed city along the siq, a winding, one kilometer long fissure through the surrounding and overhanging cliffs. Once inside, the siq narrows to little more than five meters in width, while the walls tower up hundreds of meters on either side. The floor, originally paved, is now largely covered with soft sand, although evidence of the Arab Nabataean construction can still be seen in some places
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