Petra Tour: Ad Deir (Monastery)
The monumental rock façade in a magnificent mountain landscape is one of Petra's highlights. On the plateau there are further rock structures worth seeing, such as chambers, cult niches, sacrificial places, cisterns.
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Ad Deir, the Monastery, carved out of a mountain crest in a breathtaking scenery.
In the foreground, the Great Circle, an excavated and restored part of a water pool of 60 m in diameter, that was constructed in antiquity to protect the Ad-Deir Monument.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
The monumental rock façade in a magnificent mountain landscape is one of Petra's highlights. On the plateau there are further rock structures worth seeing, such as chambers, cult niches, sacrificial places, cisterns.