#Heritage

As-Salt: the Ottoman-era city UNESCO inscribed for being decent to its neighbours

Inscribed in 2021 as Al-Salt, The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality — yellow limestone houses with arched windows and frescoed ceilings, a 19th-century merchant city that worked because Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived on the same street.

Jabal Amman: a walk through the hill that built the modern capital

One of Amman's seven hills, never fortified, settled by the Hashemite-era elite from the 1920s. The deepest cluster of early-20th-century residential architecture in the city.