The Grandeur of Ancient Jerash
Jerash · Jordan
- Audio guide
- 4 languages
- Offline
Step back in time as you wander through one of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities in the world. You will walk along colonnaded streets and stand within massive theaters and temples. This journey reveals the layers of civic life, faith, and entertainment in a lost empire.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.
Jerash Cathedral
A cathedral built from the recycled stones of a Roman temple and a Nabataean shrine.
Macellum
A Roman food market with an octagonal courtyard and carved animal scales.
The Cathedral
A Byzantine cathedral built from the recycled stones of two earlier temples.
Nymphaeum
An archaeological site in Jerash, Jordan.
Jerash
A Roman metropolis that survived Persians, Arabs, and a devastating eighth-century earthquake.
Synagogue-Church at Gerasa
A third-century synagogue repurposed into a Byzantine church under the orders of Emperor Justinian.
Stop 7
Stop 8
Stop 9
- 8 more stops in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Jerash
5 walks
How a walk works
8 more stops in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
A guide who talks
Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.