Around Amman, there a lot of castles. It's often winter houses or hunting house built by Ommeyyad and Abbassid sovereign. Those castles are very interesting because built in the early time of Islam.

Qasr al-Harrana (or Qasr al Kharanah)

Qasr az Azraq (and Lawrence of Arabia).

People
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Damascus - Maloula - Bosra - Seidnaya - Tartus - Qalaat Marqab - Qalaat Saladin - Hama - Masyaf - le Krak des Chevaliers - Apamea - Palmyra - Deir ez-Zur - Aleppo - Saint Siméon - Sergilla
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Baalbek - Beirut - Tripoli
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Amman - Ajloun - Madaba et le Mont Nebo - Jerash - Umm Qais - les châteaux du désert - Petra - Wadi Rum - Aqaba
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Sites of the World Heritage List - UNESCO

Index

Index in French