The unique historical and cultural monument is Peter - an impregnable fortress town, the capital, or necropolis (consensus still does not have) the ancient state of the Nabataeans .  Founded more than 4 thousand .  years ago, Peter is located in a mountainous area near the valley of Wadi Musa, and is connected with the outside world only by a narrow gorge kilometer Es-Sik, over which the overhanging cliffs, ganging up almost at the height of 90 m .  Numerous (over 800!) Monumental temples and tombs, tombs and public halls, water channels and basins, baths, churches, retail shops, public buildings and cobbled streets, an amphitheater that can accommodate 8, 5 thousand .  spectators - all carved in the rocks unusual pink color .  The most interesting of Al-Khazneh ("the Treasury" The tomb of a Nabatean kings), Al-Deir ("The Monastery"), Sahridzh ("Dzhinnovy lumps"), "Obeliskovaya tomb", "Area facades", the sacred mountain of Jabal al-Madbah ("Mountain of sacrifice"), "Royal tombs" Mugar Al-Nasara ("Cave of the Christians"), theater, Byzantine church over the ruins of the Nymphaeum, Al-Uzza Atargatis ("Temple of the Winged Lions"), Qasr al-Bint ("Palace Pharaoh's daughter, "although the Pharaohs, of course, do not have this construction no relation)," The Shrine of Legionnaires', etc. .

In the city of 2 archaeological museum - old (in the Jebel al-Habis) and new, has an excellent collections, and many sites identified with the biblical chronicles - the very valley of Wadi Musa ("Valley of Moses"), a mountain of Jabal Haroun (Mount Aaron in which, according to legend, the high priest Aaron died), the source of Ain Musa ("Source of Moses"), and others. The city is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List

Another undoubted value of the Jordanian land - numerous castles of the Crusades, in abundance scattered throughout the country. A single chain of fortifications encircled the Middle Ages almost the entire country, with a sufficiently large number of castles preserved in excellent condition.