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Petra One of the 7 Wonders of the World

Did you know that Petra won the 2nd place on the New 7 Wonders of the World Contest? The New Seven Wonders of the World is a project that attempts to revive the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World concept with a list of modern wonders. A popularity poll was organized by the private New 7 Wonders Foundation, with winners announced on July 7th, 2007. The Swiss-based New 7 Wonders Foundation claims that more than 100 million votes were collected through the Internet or by telephone.

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The Petra city, a component based on a unique integration between the elements of nature on the one hand and human elements on the other hand, which was reflected to create a unique urban style has no parallel in the world
Swiss orientalist Bardill
See that the Nabataea kingdom and its capital Petra constitute an important bridge in the communication and convergence of civilizations in the ancient world, has contributed to the geographical location of Nabataea Queen in making it an important center of ways to control the ancient trade.
Britain's Royal Geographical Society
the institution sets the city of Petra in Jordan in the top ten archaeological and tourist sites in the world can visit.
Foundation Hardechst tourism
said on his visit to Jordan College of Education University of tourist and hotel that the city of Petra is an important element in the tourism industry in Jordan and is a real treasure, if properly invested in a sustainable manner.
Dr. Dean Case
After his visit to the city of Petra in 1993 and after watching the wonderful effects within "that tourism in Jordan can be transformed into oil-Jordan." It is better than oil if the Jordanians knew how to exploit this unique resource is tourism and marketing in the tourism market and travel.
king of Malaysia

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Petra 2012
To celebrate the anniversary of discovering Petra 200 years ago, the PDTRA, in cooperation with the Jordan Tourism Board, will hold many activities throughout 2012
Creativity Camp in Petra
Petra Forum for Cultural Awareness and Heritage Preservation “Qawafel”, with cooperation with the Jordan University, arranged for the second creativity camp in Petra
4th Anniversary for Petra Being One of the Seven Wonders
Festivals were held for the fourth anniversary of Petra city’s victory as one of the seven world wonders by the Petra Region Hotels Association and in cooperation with PDTRA.