Roman's face in the City of Amman, Jordan

Roman's face in the City of Amman, Jordan

Pilar-pilar reruntuhan Citadel

Roman's face in the City of Amman, Jordan - Jordan is known as a Muslim country, but who would have thought many traces of Roman civilization here. One of these is the Roman theater in the city of Amman.

detikTravel exploring Jordan at the invitation of Jordan Tourism Board (Tourism Authority of Jordan) on 16-23 May 2016. One of the places explored is the Roman Theatre, built in the 2nd century in the reign of Antoninus Pius.

According to our guide Waleed Heyasat, the theater of his time functioned more as an arena to make announcements to the community, not as an entertainment arena. The theater occupies capacity reached 6,000 people.

Position theater purposely built to the north and is located on a hillside so that the eyes of the audience is not exposed to sunlight. Inside the theater today are Arab citizens of ancient traditional museum.

In addition, there is also a Citadel. It is the ruins of a variety of historic buildings. There are ancient wells were built during 150 BC, the historic fort area surrounding the Citadel complex, bronze-age cave became a place of ancient tombs, until the old church which was built in the Byzantine era.

Roman's face in the City of Amman, Jordan

There are still more ancient Muslim tombs, historic mosques, palaces until the examination room guests at Umayyad era. All sites that have a high historical value, but the conditions there were still good, partly destroyed because eaten by time as well as the massive earthquake in Jordan.

"What has survived until now because it has always built using limestone thickness is quite long. That ruined indeed because of the structure using materials that are more fragile," said Waleed.

One who looks sturdy stand examination room to the Umayyad palace. Although there are restoration here and there, there are still many original parts of the building which was founded in 730 AD it.

"But for the mosque and the palace was destroyed by the earthquake," said Waleed.