Amman Jordan Tourism

 

                         

 

      

            

Since Amman resembles Rome, as it is situated on seven hills, the city was a favorite place for Roman soldiers and officials. Behind the Roman forum stands a Roman theatre — the largest theatre in Jordan — with room for 6,000 spectators. Thought to have been built between 138 and 161 AD by the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, it is constructed into the side of the mountain and is still used for sports displays and cultural events.

 

Amman is also home to some of the grandest mosques in the Middle East, although they compare less favorably to the ones to be found in Istanbul, Turkey. The newest of these is the enormous King Abdullah I Mosque, built between 1982 and 1989. It is capped by a magnificent blue mosaic dome beneath which 3,000 Muslims may offer prayer. The most unusual mosque in Amman is the Abu Darweesh Mosque atop Jabal Ashrafieh (the highest point in the city) which is visited by all people targeting Amman Jordan Tourism . It is covered with an extraordinary black and white checkered pattern and is unique to Jordan. It is striking and visible from quite some distance. In contrast, the interior is totally free of the black and white scheme. Instead, there are light colored walls and Persian carpets. This religious building was erected by one of Amman's Jordan Tourism Circassians minority.

        

                     

     

Amman is also home to many jewelers and souvenir shops for citizens and tourists alike. Amman is also a major destination for foreign students seeking study in Arabic. Amman's world-class hospitals are frequent destinations for those who seek medical treatment.

 

The city’s culinary scene has expanded from its famous shwarma stands and falafel joints to embrace many popular Western restaurants and fast-food outlets like McDonald's and TGIF, a host of swank Asian fusion restaurants, intimate French bistros such as La Maison Verte and authentic Italian trattorias.

 

There are numerous nightclubs and bars across the city especially in West Amman. Modesty in dress for men and women go out the window and low-cut shirts, tank tops and short-skirts are common. Although Amman has a rapidly growing nightlife scene, Beirut and Tel Aviv still are the two nightlife hubs of the Middle East. However, Amman is mounting a challenge to Beirut as the Arab style capital with a plethora of retail outlets and malls currently operational and more on its way. Amman's nightclubs are filled with young Jordanians, Persian Gulf vacationers, American soldiers and businessmen on their way to Iraq which enjoy the Amman Jordan Tourism at maximum . Abdoun Circle (not one of the eight) is the heart of the city’s thriving night life where the chicest clubs maintain a strict “couples only” policy, meaning no unescorted men. The night-life scene evolves so quickly that hot spots open and close almost before they can be published in magazines and tourist guide books.

As well as the wide range of drinking and dancing venues on the social circuit of the city's affluent crowd, Amman has a surprising amount of cultural entertainment to indulge in like the annual Amman Summer Festival and Souk Jara.

 

 

 

 

A new construction project in Abdali will transform downtown Amman into a more desirable place for investment. Valued at more than US $5 Billion, the Abdali project is expected to start welcoming visitors by 2010. Once completed, it will create a new visible centre for Amman and act as the major business district for this ever-thriving city and become one of  main attraction for Amman Jordan Tourism. Amman’s new downtown that Abdali Psc is creating will cater to the needs of thousands of Jordanians and foreigners who choose Jordan as their living and investment destination. The core of the first phase will be completed in 2010, and phase one's high rise projects will be completed in 2011 and 2012. The second phase will be completed in 2014 and the entire project will be finished by 2015.

      

             

                

          

Amman is an emerging hub for Persian Gulf vacationers who come to take advantage of the mild weather and liberal atmosphere during the summer. Over a million visitors from the affluent Persian Gulf stay in Amman for the summer annually. The summer of 2009 brought approximately 2.5 million Arab visitors to Jordan, mainly from the Persian Gulf.

700,000 vehicles arrive in Jordan every summer clogging up Jordanian highways and streets, especially in Amman. Persian Gulf vacationers, Jordanian expatriates, and regional tourists arrive in Jordan by car every summer to escape the hot summers common in the Persian Gulf and to enjoy a more moderate climate.

 

 

Shopping is continually becoming more popular in Jordanian culture and is very notable in the past five years, with huge mega malls across Amman popping up such as Mecca Mall, Abdoun Mall, Amman Mall, City Mall, Plaza Mall, and Al Baraka Mall and soon there will be new mall called Taj Mall which is currently under development located in one the affluent neighborhood Abdoun. Amman's retail sector is booming as the city is becoming a hub for Western travelers in the Levant. Taj Mall, and Abdali Mall are also currently under construction, and are to be opened in the near future that will be as part of Amman Jordan Tourism .

Amman's newest shopping malls carry label names, which help attract tourists.