Today, about half a million tourists come to Jordan every year to see Petra, whose buildings testify to its glorious past. As tourists pass through the kilometer-long chilly Siq Canyon, around the corner they see the Treasury, a majestic building with a facade carved from a huge rock.
This is one of the best preserved buildings of the first century. The building is crowned with a huge stone urn, which supposedly contained gold and precious stones, hence the name "Treasury". The canyon gradually expands, and tourists find themselves in a natural amphitheater, in the sandstone walls of which there are many caves. But the main thing that catches the eye is the rooms carved into the rocks.
The colonnade and the amphitheater testify to the presence of the Romans in the city in the first and second centuries. The Bedouins offer camel rides to tired tourists, sell souvenirs and water their herds of goats at the city's springs, whose waters quench the thirst of people and animals.