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[Home Page]The star attraction in Jerash are the ruins themselves. Guidebooks, maps and information are available from the Visitors' Center near the South Gate. Opening hours 7:30-7:00pm daily in winter, 7:30-8:30pm in summer.
Jerash Archaeological Museum in the ruins. Hours 8:30-5:00pm in winter, 8:30-6:00pm in summer, 10:00-4:00pm on official holidays. Closed Friday Admission free.
Ajloun Castle open 9:00-5:00pm daily. Admission free.
Um el-Jamil: Further north lies Um el-Jamil - "Black Gem of the Desert" - once a town on the margins of the Decapolis. Rural and well-to-do, it was a fitting contrast to the surrounding busy cities. Its lovely black basalt mansions and towers, some still standing three storeys high, have long inspired poets.
 | Today you can walk beneath four imposing gates, or make your way down the "Street of Columns" - the Roman Cardo - running 600 meters north from the Oval Plaza. As you step over the tracks of chariot wheels still visible in the paving stones, imagine prosperous citizens window-shopping beneath a covered sidewalk. Jerash wacan open city of free-standing structures richly embellished with marble and granite. Its engineering was so advanced that large parts of the city still survive today. Much more has been painstakingly restored by archaeological teams from around the world. |
