Madaba ' The City of Mosaics '

This town is located 33 kilometers south of Amman, reached via two paths: a longer and overview, the "Road of Kings" , which dates back to about 5000 years, and the other path used as a shortcut for the airport.

Ancient Mosaic Map of the Holy Land 

Like Petra and Karak, Madaba lies above the value of its historical legacy : in fact inhabited since the Iron Age , the city and the surrounding plateau are privileged places for the reconstruction of archaeological and historical memory of the country as the "Holy Land " , a place mentioned in the Bible in the period of the Exodus (1200 BC), as one of the places in the plains of Moab conquered by the Israelite tribes.

Church of St. George in Madaba

Madaba was conquered by the Greeks with Alexander the Great, the Seleucids, the Ammonites, the Israelites, the Nabataeans and finally the Romans and the Byzantines. Thanks to the latter Madaba was covered by a veil of precious mosaics, with which the city has just the title of City of Mosaics.

Mosque of Jesus Christ in Madaba

We highly recommend a visit to the Church of St. George, which houses one of the most interesting works in this regard, "Map of the Holy Land," a mosaic dating from the sixth century, which is the way to Jerusalem when crossing another 150 steps, from Nile Delta to Palestine. The work is full of about 157 captions in greek and originally composed by two million pieces, now reduced to a third of the original work. 

Beautif Mosaic Art in Madaba

Map of the Holy Land is not the only one among the beautiful mosaics that adorn the churches of Madaba, which is why the museums of the place mainly deal this issue. The city itself, thanks to a ministerial project, boasts the presence of an important school craft for the restoration, repair and construction of mosaic works.

Jerash Greek City in Jordan

After Petra, Jerash is the second largest tourist attraction in the country, characterized by a strong presence of archaeological sites.

Hadrian's Arch

The first to choose it for their settlement were the Greeks, due to its closeness to the Wadi Jerash, and the fertility of the land kissed by this river.




The conquest of Alexander the Great, however, not such great celebrity to the place as the next guided by the Romans. Under their hegemony in fact, the ancient Gerasa became part of a system of nine other cities ( Decapolis ) due to commercial and military ties which finally came to thrive.

Oval Forum

Among the major testimonies of Roman rule are now the remains of the crossroads formed by the cardo and the maximum decumano, crossing the city, respectively, in the north-south and east-west.

After various dominations and fortunes, the city experienced a period of decline, in part due to violent earthquakes destroyed and decimated the population.

Roman Theater

New waves of immigration from Russia at the end of the 800th A.D, finally gave new life-stream and brought attention to its heritage and the fact that it's found today in an extraordinary state of preservation is also due to this period.

Jerash Panoramic View

Among the major sites to visit Jerash are the ancient baths, the racecourse, the temple dedicated to Jupiter, the theater, the Arch of Hadrian, the hole and the walls culminating in the southern gate.

Colonnaded Street in Jerash City

Instead of the Byzantine era are three ancient churches, among them the Church of St. Theodore, was according to tradition, a place of miracles where Jesus turned water into wine.