Things to do in Amman
Amman, Jordan
14 hand-picked places in Amman, Jordan: 9 landmarks, 2 museums and 3 mosques. Each has an editor's guide to what it is, when to go and what to know before you visit, with licensed photos. Start with the 2-day plan below, one area a day so you spend your time seeing rather than crossing town, or let the AI planner build a plan for your own dates, with restaurants, opening hours and live prices.
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2-day plan for Amman: one area a day
The best-known places, grouped by how close they are to each other. Distances are straight lines; the walk is a little longer.
Day 1: around Amman Citadel
- 1.Amman Citadel · Attraction
- 2.Al Husseini Mosque · Mosque · 600 m away
- 3.Roman Theater · Attraction · 500 m away
- 4.Abu Darweesh Mosque · Mosque · 1.2 km away
Day 2: around King Abdullah I Mosque
- 1.King Abdullah I Mosque · Mosque
- 2.Ammonite Watchtower · Attraction · 900 m away
- 3.Rainbow Street · Attraction · 2.2 km away
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Landmarks and sights
- Amman CitadelThe Amman Citadel, on Jabal al-Qal'a, is an archaeological site on an L-shaped hill towering over downtown Amman, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.
Roman TheaterThe Roman Theatre is Amman's most famous landmark and the largest theatre in Jordan, set into the slope of Jabal al-Jofeh in the eastern part of downtown, facing the Citadel.
Ahl Al KahfThe Cave of Ahl al-Kahf (Kahf al-Raqim) in the village of al-Rajib east of Amman, about 10 km from the city centre near Abu Alanda, is the place many Muslim scholars identify as the cave of the Companions of the Cave…
Rainbow StreetRainbow Street, officially Abu Bakr al-Siddiq Street, is one of the oldest and liveliest streets in Amman, running along Jabal Amman from the First Circle eastwards to Mango Street, close to downtown.
Roman NymphaeumThe Nymphaeum is a partially preserved Roman public fountain in downtown Amman, at the crossing of Ibn al-Atheer and Quraysh streets, beside the Seil Amman, the stream that ran through the city until it dried up in the…
Umayyad PalaceThe Umayyad Palace crowns the northern part of the Citadel hill in Amman and is among the most important buildings the Umayyads raised in the city during the eighth century, when Amman was an administrative centre of…
Temple of HeraklesThe Temple of Hercules is the most important Roman building surviving in Amman and one of the symbols of the city, standing on the summit of the Citadel hill above downtown and the Roman Theatre.
Ammonite WatchtowerRujm al-Malfouf is one of the oldest monuments in Amman: a round stone tower with adjoining storerooms on the northern side of Jabal Amman, west of the Fourth Circle, on a spot overlooking Wadi Saqra beside the…
Qasr al AbdQasr al-Abd is a rare Hellenistic palace standing among the orchards of Wadi Seer in the village of Iraq al-Amir, about 17 km west of Amman, and one of the very few Hellenistic buildings surviving anywhere in the Levant.
Museums
Royal Automobile MuseumThe Royal Automobile Museum stands in Al Hussein Public Parks on Medical City Street in Amman and is the first public automotive museum in the Arab region.
Jordan MuseumThe Jordan Museum is the country's largest museum and the place where Jordan's story is told from its earliest inhabitants to the present.
Mosques
King Abdullah I MosqueThe King Abdullah I Mosque is a mosque and cultural centre and one of the landmarks of Amman, in the Abdali district near downtown.
Al Husseini MosqueThe Grand Husseini Mosque is the oldest mosque in Amman and the beating heart of the city: it stands at the head of King Talal Street downtown, with the old city's markets, from the gold souq to the Bukharia market and…
Abu Darweesh MosqueThe Abu Darwish Mosque is one of Amman's most recognisable landmarks and one of its finest mosques, crowning the summit of Jabal al-Ashrafieh south of the city centre so that it can be seen from most of the capital…