The Theatre, Petra, Jordan

No trip to Jordan is complete without a visit to Petra. Beyond the tourist hotspot of the Treasury Building is a long valley surrounded on either side by funerary monuments and other buildings. Tucked into the side of the valley, about half a kilometre from the centre of Petra, is a theatre, built in Roman style by the ruling Nabatean people in the 1st Century CE. It is estimated that the theatre could hold up to 8,500 people. Most of the theatre was carved out of solid rock and seems to have been constructed so that a large number of the tombs in the valley could be seen by the audience while seeing a performance. These photos were taken in November 2019.