The ancient city of Jerash in Jordan is almost second place in popularity among tourists after Petra. People continuously live in this place for more than 6,500 years.

Jerash is situated in a valley surrounded by wooded hills and fertile valleys. Conquered by General Pompey in 63 BC, Jerash taken by the Romans and was included in the Decapolis (the ten towns).

The Golden age of the city came in the era of Roman rule when it was known as Gerasa. Today Jerash, acknowledged as one of the best-preserved provincial Roman cities in the world. For centuries the city was hidden under tons of sand excavations began only 70 years ago. Jerash - a magnificent example of a provincial Roman town planning, examples of which can be found all over the Middle East. This style is characterized by cobbled streets with colonnades, majestic temples in the hills, magnificent theaters, spacious public squares, baths, fountains, and massive city walls with towers and gates.

Under this Greco-Roman shell of Jerash holds an exquisite blend of Eastern and Western cultures. In its architecture, religion and languages of the traces of the collision and interpenetration of the two led/icih cultures of the Greco-Roman world of the Mediterranean basin and the ancient traditions of the Arab East.

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