Wikipedia — Jordan Travel Guide
336 articles about travel to Jordan — destinations, practical guides, culture, nature and traveller Q&A — in your language.
The Citadel Museum
The Citadel Museum, on the Amman Citadel plateau, is a compact gallery of finds from the site's Bronze Age to Umayyad layers — statues, inscriptions and everyday objects that make the ruins around it readable. It is inc…
Read more → CultureThe Jordan Folklore Museum
The Jordan Folklore Museum, set in the vaults of the Roman Theatre, displays traditional costumes, jewellery, household tools and reconstructions of Bedouin tents — a quick, rich window into Jordanian heritage. Entry is…
Read more → CultureThe Amman Stairs & Street Art
Amman's hills hide an open-air gallery: painted staircases connecting Jabal Amman and Lweibdeh, and murals turning concrete walls into portraits and calligraphy. The staircase on the Rainbow Street slope is the most pho…
Read more → CultureThe Petra Museum
The Petra Museum, near the visitor centre, is a beautifully designed modern museum of Nabataean civilization — sculpture, the famous marble faces, water engineering models and the burned manuscripts from the Byzantine C…
Read more → CultureThe Museum at the Lowest Point
The Museum at the Lowest Point on Earth, in Ghor es-Safi, tells the story of the southern Dead Sea — its biblical associations, Byzantine monasteries, salt industry and the plants and people of the oasis. It is small, w…
Read more → CultureThe Madaba Mosaic School
The Madaba Mosaic School trains a new generation of artisans in the region's ancient craft — visitors can watch students cutting stone, see restoration projects and buy certified reproductions. Workshops support the tow…
Read more → CultureAs-Salt: The City of Tolerance
As-Salt, Jordan's newest UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an Ottoman hill town of golden limestone houses, grand merchants' mansions and mosques, churches and springs shared peacefully for centuries — 'the city of toleran…
Read more → CultureThe Dar as-Saru Museum
The Dar as-Saru Museum in Irbid houses the north's finest archaeological collection — mosaics, glass, coins and finds from Pella, Umm Qais and Umm el-Jimal in an elegant Ottoman-era residence. It adds real context to th…
Read more → CultureThe Aqaba Archaeological Museum
The Aqaba Archaeological Museum, inside the fort's grounds, tells the story of Ayla — the early Islamic port city whose mudbrick gates and walls still lie in the park opposite — with coins, ceramics and ship finds. It i…
Read more → CultureAqaba Old Town
Aqaba's Old Town park preserves the excavated streets of Ayla, the 7th-century Islamic port laid out in a neat Roman-style grid — city gates, a small mosque and the foundations of a walled harbour town. It sits opposite…
Read more → CultureA Brief History of Jordan
Jordan's history stretches back to some of the earliest cities on Earth. The land of the biblical Ammonites, Moabites and Edomites became the Nabataean kingdom of Petra, then a chain of Roman Decapolis cities, Byzantine…
Read more → CultureAncient Jordan: Nabataeans, Romans and Byzantines
Ancient Jordan was home to three great civilisations. The Nabataeans carved Petra from the rock and engineered desert water systems, the Romans built the Decapolis cities of Jerash, Amman, Pella and Umm Qais, and the By…
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