Jerash
One of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities
Jerash preserves an entire Greco-Roman provincial city with remarkable completeness: colonnaded streets, temples, theatres and a monumental oval forum, all set against the green hills of northern Jordan.
Why Visit
Few Roman sites anywhere in the Mediterranean world survive this intact. Walking its original paved streets, still marked by chariot-wheel ruts, gives a vivid sense of daily life in antiquity.
Highlights
- The Oval Forum and its unusual asymmetric colonnade
- The Cardo Maximus, Jerash's main colonnaded street
- The North and South Theatres
- The Temple of Artemis
- The ancient Hippodrome, once used for chariot races
Suggested Experiences
- Suggested duration
- Around three to four hours is enough to see the main ruins at a comfortable pace.
