Petra The Rose Red City
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
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
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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