Have a Break Tea & Coffee

The Ancient City


With a view of the Royal Tombs, this Bedouin-run establishment can muster sandwiches, snacks and milkshakes. It has a permanent awning and nascent garden, and is in just the right spot to enjoy sunset.


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Nearby The Ancient City attractions

1. Corinthian Tomb

0.06 MILES

The badly damaged Corinthian Tomb is something of a hybrid, with Hellenistic decorative features on the upper level and a Nabataean portico on the lower…

2. Palace Tomb

0.08 MILES

The delightful three-storey imitation of a Roman or Hellenistic palace, known as the Palace Tomb, is distinctive among the Royal Tombs for its rock-hewn…

3. Silk Tomb

0.09 MILES

Next to the distinctive Urn Tomb in the Royal Tomb group is the so-called Silk Tomb, noteworthy for the stunning swirls of pink-, white- and yellow-veined…

4. Urn Tomb

0.14 MILES

The most distinctive of the Royal Tombs is the Urn Tomb, recognisable by the enormous urn on top of the pediment. It was built in about AD 70 for King…

5. Nymphaeum

0.17 MILES

At the start of the Colonnaded Street, this public fountain was built in the 2nd century AD and fed by water channelled from the Siq. Little can be seen…

7. Cistern

0.21 MILES

Hilltop Nabataean cistern with wonderful views of the Theatre.

8. Petra Church

0.25 MILES

An awning covers the remains of Petra Church (also known as the Byzantine Church). Inside the church are some exquisite Byzantine floor mosaics, some of…