Spend a day wandering a preserved Ottoman-era town.
Just ten miles outside of Amman, the town of Salt, or Al-Salt, is one of the last Ottoman footprints in the Arab world. The Ottomans made the town—settled on three hills and the valley that connects them—an administrative headquarters for the lands south of Syria and east of Jerusalem in the early 19th century, encouraging traders from nearby Nablus, Jerusalem, and Basra and the eastern deserts to settle there, thus igniting a construction boom.
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