Day Tour: Amman - Pella - Um Qays - Amman
Theme: History & Culture
Amman – Pella – Um Qais – Amman
Meet your driver / guide at the hotel in the morning, to find out the philosophes towns Pella & Um Qais.
| You will be transferred from Amman to Pella | ||
| Distance | Estimated Time Duration | Time for visit |
| 85 KM | 1 Hour & 30 Minutes | 2-3 Hour |
| You will be transferred from Pella to Um Qais | ||
| Distance | Estimated Time Duration | Time for visit |
| 40 KM | 45 Minutes | 1 Hour |
| You will be transferred from Um Qais to Amman | ||
| Distancespan> | Estimated Time Duration | TiTime for visit |
| 120 KM | 2 Hours | ----- |
Pella:
It's located approximately 81 km from Amman, about 1 hour and 40 min drive. With a history extending back into the Bronze Age, Pella is a site favored by archaeologists as it is exceptionally rich in antiquities as well as the excavated ruins from Graeco; Roman period, including the Odeon theatre. It also offers visitors the opportunity to see the remains of a Chalcolithic settlement from the 4th millennium BC, the remains of Bronze and Iron Age walled cities, Byzantine churches and houses, Early Islamic residential quarters, and a small medieval mosque.
You can also see the 6th century West Church, 6th century Civic Complex Church, 1st century Odeon, Roman Nymphaeum and East Church.
Um Qais (Gadara):
It was a fort city set on a hill and the ruins are still surrounded by the ancient walls, crumbled and part submerged in places.
It was a fort city set on a hill and the ruins are still surrounded by the ancient walls, crumbled and part submerged in places.
It is a hilltop site with grand views over Lake Tiberias, the Yarmouk River and the Golan Heights. It is mainly associated with the story of Jesus casting out demons and sending them into a herd of pigs which rushed down a steep slope and drowned in the lake.
Segments of a temple and basilica, two amphitheatres, a bathhouse, a hippodrome and other important buildings have survived along with a section of paved road, complete with chariot wheel grooves.
Gadara was noted for its rich intellectual life and as the birthplace of several famous philosophers and poets of the ancient world like the Cynic philosopher Menippus. It was the home of several classical poets and philosophers, including Theodorus, founder of a rhetorical school in Rome, and was once called “a new Athens” by a poet.
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