Petra, at approximately three hours of car of Amman, the Jordanian capital, is one of the most magic and impressive places of the world. It is a question of a city excavated in the rock, which in the past was a very important point, since across her the step of the trailers was taking place in the Near East.
But after living through a splendor period, Petra was destroyed by earthquakes that destruyerion big part of the city, which little by little was falling into oblivion, until Johan Ludwing Burckhardt penetrated in Petra in 1812, making pass for an Arab comericante. In that epoch Petra was inhabited by Bedouin tribes. It is possible to imagine how he should have felt on having found before his eyes a mythical city, about which they were speaking the chronicles of the Antiquity, but which nobody was locating exactly in the map.
Petra is an impressive place, but he still keeps many secrets, since what nowadays it is possible to visit is only 5 % of his surface. The rest still remains under ground.
To know Petra, it is worth beginning in the first hour of the morning, to enjoy of ls tonalities that the beams of the sun reflect in the stones of the city: not in vain, it has called it itself the Pink City. If it is possible, also it is worth remaining until the night.
Many housings have not been discovered in Petra, but one believes that it could have up to 20.000 inhabitants, turning in an important city in which there would be all kinds of services. Other of the points that he is worth visiting in Petra there are the Museums that exist at the end of the Route columnada, already qu in them it is possible to know the history of the city, which was declared a Patrimony of the Humanity in 1985.
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