Jerash (Gerasa)

Jerash is perhaps the best preserved and most complete provincial Roman city anywhere in the world. To walk through the ancient City is to step back into the world of 2nd century provincial Cities along the southeastern frontier of the roman empire.

Jerash, called Grease in roman times, is important not only for It’s individual monuments, but also for it’s strict and well Preserved town plan, built around the colonnaded main street and Several intersecting side streets. It’s most noteworthy monuments Include the colonnaded street (the cardo), the south theater, the Temple of Zeus, the oval piazza, Hadrian’s arch, the nymphaeum, The Artemis temple complex and the smaller north theater, or Odeon.