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Meet the city
Petra is one of the
seven wonders.
Some history
The Siq
The Treasury
The Great Temple
The City Centre
The Royal Tombs
Petra is set amongst the
beautiful old cities of wadi araba
in Jordan .The buildings are
carved out of rock with
wonderful rainbow colours.
Petra was an important cultural
crossroad between Arabia, Egypt,
and Syria-Phoenicia.
The Nabataea's
built the city in 500BC.Over the
centuries it traded with Arabs,
Assyrians, Egyptians ,Greeks and
Romans. The Romans came to
Petra in 106AD,and in 363AD
an earthquake destroyed
many buildings.
In the 19th centaury tourists started
visiting it. In 1985 it became a
UNESCO protected monument.
This is the entrance to the
city. It is a kilometer-long
path which passes through
a dramatic narrow gorge.
At the end of the walk
we saw our first incredible
sight of Petra.
This is the best –known
building in Petra. It’s
decorated and its front is carved out
of a high sandstone cliff.
Inside, it isn't
decorated – there
is a large square
room and smaller empty rooms.
Then we saw the huge Nabataea's
theatre-a great place to perform.
This is largest building in Petra.
It has about 100 columns and
many wonderful Nabataeans and Greek
Sculpture sand carvings.
We loved this places!
This was once the center of a busy
city with hundreds of streets,
market places And houses.
These fantastic decorated tombs
are carved into the rock face.
There was a 30 minute climb but
the views were brilliant you really
feel the atmosphere of the place .