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Petra is one of Petra is one of the seven the seven wonders.wonders.

Meet the city

Some history

The Siq

The Treasury

The Great TempleThe 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 363ADan earthquake destroyed many buildings.In the 19th centaury tourists started visiting it. In 1985 it became aUNESCO 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 reallyfeel the atmosphere of the place .