Citadel
The region called the Citadel sits on the maximum mountain in Amman, Jebel Al Qala’a (roughly 850m above sea level), also is the site of historical Rabbath-Ammon. Occupied because the Bronze Age, it is surrounded with a 1700m-long wall, that has been rebuilt several times during the Bronze and Iron Ages, in Addition to the Roman, Byzantine and Umayyad periods. There is a lot to see, but the Citadel’s most spectacular sights will be the Temple of Hercules and the Ummayad Palace.
Darat Al Funun
On the hillside to the north of the Caribbean region, this ethnic sanctuary is devoted to modern art. The major building includes a superb artwork gallery with functions by Jordanian and other Arab artists, an art library, and workshops such as Jordanian and seeing sculptors and painters. A schedule of forthcoming exhibitions, lectures, movies and public discussion forums is available on the site.
Royal Automobile Museum
You really do not have to be a car enthusiast to love the particular museum, which displays greater than 70 classic cars and motorbikes from the personal number of King Hussein. It’s something of a gem, and a great way to recount the narrative of modern Jordan. Vehicles range between pre-1950s glories into modern sport cars, taking chrome-clad American cruisers to regal rolls royces along the way, together with accounts of presidential visits, including Hollywood stars and defunct Middle Eastern monarchies enlivening the narrative.
Children’s Museum
This brightly designed hands-free memorial for children is a full joy. In its many zones, young people can play and find out about everything in the functioning of your body to lasers and rainbows. Particular favourites (perhaps since they also involve dressing ) would be the construction site with its own bricks and pulleys, as well as the mocked-up Royal Jordanian airplane and atmosphere control tower. There is an outdoor play area and a cafe, and a beautiful library if the kids want some quiet time.
Jordan Museum
The Jordan Museum, situated next to the City Hall, is one of the best from the Middle East. Housed in a grand contemporary construction, a string of superbly presented and educational screens tell Jordan’s historic epic by the very first people throughout the Nabataean civilisation into the cusp of the modern age. Highlights include the oldest-known human figurines (the spookily contemporary 9500-year-old plaster mannequins of Ain Ghazal), Jordan’s share of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a slew of stays from Petra and encompasses.
Qasr Al Abad
The small but striking Qasr Al Abad, west of Amman, is one of the hardly any examples of pre-Roman structure in Jordan. Mystery surrounds the palace, as well as its precise age is not known, although most scholars feel that Hyrcanus of those effective Jewish Tobiad family constructed it between 187 and 175 BC for a villa or augmented palace. Although never completed, a lot of the palace was reconstructed and stays an impressive website.
Roman Theatre
This beautifully restored theatre is the most evident and remarkable remnant of Roman Philadelphia, and is the highlight of Amman for many overseas people. The theater itself is cut to the northern side of a mountain and has a seating capacity of 6000. The best time for photos is that the morning, once the light is tender — even though the views in the top tiers before sunset are also excellent.
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
This small but remarkable gallery is an excellent place to get an appreciation of modern Jordanian painting, pottery and sculpture. The appealing area highlights modern art from across the Middle East and the broader Muslim world. Temporary exhibits here are of top quality and function as a valuable introduction (or refresher) into the sphere of Islamic artwork. The gallery is signposted from Suleiman Al Nabulsi St, contrary to the King Abdullah Mosque.
Haya Cultural Centre
Designed especially for kids, this center has a library, a park, an interactive ecomuseum along an inflatable castle. Additionally, it organizes regular actions and theater, puppet and audio performances for children.
Qasr Al Mushatta
These partly rebuilt 8th-century ruins have the winter palace of Umayyad caliph Walid II, intended as a luxury castle but not ended. They are a brief drive from the global airport, but you will need your own transport (or hired cab ) to achieve them. If you dismiss the jet soaring overhead, then the extensive site hints in the huge potential of the caliph’s grand vision — one cut brief in 744, when he was blindsided by mad labourers on the website.
Cave of the Seven Sleepers
The legend of the’seven sleepers’ entails seven Christian boys that had been persecuted by the Roman Emperor Trajan, subsequently escaped into a cave and slept there for 309 decades. This really is one of many places which promise to be the cave. Within the primary cave — also called Ahl Al Kahf (Cave of the Individuals ) — are eight smaller tombs that are sealed, although one has a hole in it, through which you may observe a creepy group of bones.
King Abdullah Mosque
Finished in 1989 as a convention from the late King Hussein to his grandfather, this blue-domed landmark could house around 7000 worshippers, with a further 3000 from the courtyard. There’s also a tiny women’s part for 500 worshippers along with a far smaller royal enclosure. The cavernous, octagonal prayer hall is surrounded by a stunning blue ribbon 35m in diameter, decorated with Quranic inscriptions. This really is the only mosque in Amman that welcomes non-Muslim visitors.
Folklore Museum
Immediately to the right as you enter into the Roman Theatre, this little museum houses a small selection of things demonstrating traditional Jordanian life. It features a Bedouin goat-hair tent complete with gear, musical instruments like the rababa (a one-stringed Bedouin tool ), looms, mihbash (coffee grinders), a few weapons and assorted costumes, such as conventional Circassian dress.
Rainbow Street
This road in Jebel Amman is a destination in itself. Ammanis come here each day to promenade and also to go to the many excellent restaurants and cafes — to see and be seen. There are loads of stores if you run from the day (the place is fantastic for memorabilia ), but either way, it is best explored by foot since the narrow one-way road readily clogs with visitors any time of night or day.
Duke’s Diwan
This historic townhouse, built-in 1924, has functioned as a post office (Amman’s first), the Ministry of Finance along with a resort. These days, it’s been restored with period furnishings with a dominant Jordanian businessman, who’s also the duke of this village of Mukhaybeh. The group of old photographs of Amman offers an intriguing glimpse of a bygone era. It is all very underplayed, but instead charming nonetheless.
Hejaz Railway
The Hejaz Railway once ferried pilgrims from Damascus in Syria to Amman and then to Medina in Saudi Arabia, but just the breeze rolls during this historical old channel at the moment. There is a tiny on-site memorial, and you’re able to sit at the elaborately decked Royal Carriage. Very occasionally, there are rumours that a tourist ceremony will begin employing the fabulous steam locomotive, however, plans look indefinitely to run to the buffers. We live in hope.
Military Museum
The very simple and solemn Martyr’s Memorial houses a small but fascinating selection of records, chronicling Jordan’s current military history, by the Arab Revolt in 1916 (where 10,000 Arab fighters were murdered ) into the Arab–Israeli wars. The aim, however, is a focus on remembrance instead of historical verisimilitude.
Al Husseini Mosque
Constructed by King Abdullah I in 1924 and restored in 1987, this streamlined mosque is at the center of downtown to the website of an earlier mosque built in AD 640. The mosque is perhaps more interesting as a hive of activity compared to almost any architectural splendor — that the precinct is a popular local meeting place. Respectfully dressed non-Muslims might be confessed — inquire in the gate.
Roman Aqueduct
Around 4km west of Wadi As Seer, on the path into the village of Iraq Al Amir, you are able to see a portion of an ancient Roman aqueduct, testament to Rome’s victory at irrigating this arid land. Wadi Since Seer is served with a minibus from Amman’s Muhajireen Bus Station, but you ought to walk or have your own transportation to get into the aqueduct.
Odeon
On the eastern side of Amman’s Forum stands out a 500-seat Odeon. Built-in the 2nd century AD, it functioned mainly as a place for musical performances. It was likely enclosed with a wooden roof or temporary roof to protect the actors and audience in the components. Like its larger sibling, the neighboring Roman Forum, it’s seasonally employed for performances.