Hotels near Street of Facades

The Street of Facades runs immediately past the Treasury and continues for 300 metres along a sandstone cliff lined with 40+ Nabatean tomb facades. These are smaller and simpler than the Treasury - mostly mid-1st century BC family tombs of wealthy Nabatean merchants. The architecture combines Egyptian (stepped tops, the Crow Step Style), Assyrian (cornices), and Hellenistic (column capitals) influences - a visual record of Nabatean trading connections.

The facades are climbable in several places - the Bedouins sometimes offer scrambled access to the upper viewing terraces. The route continues to the Theatre (a Roman-era amphitheatre carved into the cliff) and the main Nabatean street. The cliff face contains carved doorways at multiple levels showing how the city was 3-dimensional. Allow 30 minutes for the walk. Free with Petra ticket.

Pro Tip: The third tomb on the southern side has an interior chamber large enough to walk through to the back wall - one of the best-preserved Nabatean tomb interiors in Petra. The Bedouin tea sellers near the Theatre offer surprisingly good cardamom tea for 1 JOD.