Mhadaba iglesia Sant Jorge patrimonio de la humanidad (Jordania)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 0.95 mi
- Elevation gain
- 49 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 75 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,593 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 2,512 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 8 minutes
- Time
- 50 minutes
- Coordinates
- 198
- Uploaded
- April 14, 2023
- Recorded
- April 2023
near Ḩayy al Hāshimī, Madaba (Jordan)
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Madaba is the capital of the homonymous governorate in Jordan. It is located 35 kilometers southwest of Amman.
Although it lived through an important period during the Iron Age, as Mádaba is mentioned on the Mesa Stela, today, it is well known for its mosaics from the Byzantine and Umayyad eras and is therefore nicknamed the City of Mosaics. Of special importance is the map of Madaba, a Byzantine-era mosaic-map with the oldest surviving cartographic representation of Jerusalem, the Holy Land and the Nile Delta. It dates from the 6th century and is housed in the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Jorge.
Other Byzantine temples are preserved such as the cathedral, famous for the chapel of San Teodoro that has a mosaic from the s. VI, the church of the Martyrs, whose pavement is a mosaic much destroyed by the iconoclasts of the s. VIII, and the church of the Virgin, built on the ruins of a Roman temple and an adjoining house called Sala de Hipólito for a mosaic on the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus. This last church is located in the archaeological museum of Mádaba.
In addition, the Church of the Apostles contains the largest mosaic in Jordan, with representations of the 12 apostles and motifs from the Hellenistic world.
Also from the Byzantine period is the so-called Burnt Palace, named after a fire that largely destroyed it and led to its abandonment. It has been restored and some mosaics have been recovered.
Although it lived through an important period during the Iron Age, as Mádaba is mentioned on the Mesa Stela, today, it is well known for its mosaics from the Byzantine and Umayyad eras and is therefore nicknamed the City of Mosaics. Of special importance is the map of Madaba, a Byzantine-era mosaic-map with the oldest surviving cartographic representation of Jerusalem, the Holy Land and the Nile Delta. It dates from the 6th century and is housed in the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Jorge.
Other Byzantine temples are preserved such as the cathedral, famous for the chapel of San Teodoro that has a mosaic from the s. VI, the church of the Martyrs, whose pavement is a mosaic much destroyed by the iconoclasts of the s. VIII, and the church of the Virgin, built on the ruins of a Roman temple and an adjoining house called Sala de Hipólito for a mosaic on the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus. This last church is located in the archaeological museum of Mádaba.
In addition, the Church of the Apostles contains the largest mosaic in Jordan, with representations of the 12 apostles and motifs from the Hellenistic world.
Also from the Byzantine period is the so-called Burnt Palace, named after a fire that largely destroyed it and led to its abandonment. It has been restored and some mosaics have been recovered.
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