If you could choose any HISTORICAL city in the world in which to vacation free for a week, which would you choose?

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The one I live in. I’m lucky enough to live in the most fascinating historical city I know, Petra. With all the ongoing excavations, and the amazing size of the place (over 40 square miles), there’s always something new to see.

And like anyone who lives at what most people consider a holiday destination, I don’t visit it as much as I’d like to. I would love to have a week when I could once again be an anonymous visitor, instead of a familiar face. I would go in and out of the site by different "secret roads" every time, and spend some quality time each day just sitting on a convenient rock, watching the passing sun change the colors of the sandstone mountains from which the ancient city was carved.

I would go back up those 900-odd steps to ad-Deir (the Monastery), and sit on the western ledge watching the passing traffic far off down in Wadi Araba, trying to imagine the days when lookouts were posted on the same spot to watch for returning caravans bringing trade goods from Jerusalem, Tyre and Gaza bound for the Orient. I would climb again to the top of Um al-Biyara ("Mother of Cisterns"), where the Nabatean hydrology geniuses stored the city’s water supplies. There is a newly-excavated temple I haven’t see yet, so I’d like to check it out.

Another team of archaeologists has done some work on the grand processional way the Nabatean priests once trod to reach the top of this commanding massif. It was an enormous ramp--about as wide as a modern city street--carved all the way up in switchback fashion through the heart of the mountain itself, and paved with giant stones. The stones are now being uncovered, and I’d like to see how the street is shaping up.

There’s a Bedouin family who still live in their black tent at the foot of Jabal Harun, Petra’s highest mountain, believed to be the burial spot of Aaron, brother of Moses. I’d like to wander by their tent and enjoy the hospitality they always extend to passing travelers making their way to the medieval shrine atop the mountain. That family invited me to my first traditional "mensaf" feast many years ago, and made me an instant convert to this locally-renowned dish.

I’ve eaten hundreds of mensafs since, but theirs still tastes the best. I’d spend at least one afternoon poking around inside all the little caves of the "Street of Facades," many of which I’ve never entered. There are such fantastic loops and whorls of colors inside all these caves; I’ll take along a sketch pad and try to make an inside-out record of the street.

A French team has been working on one of the Wadi Farasa tricliniums for several seasons now. I haven’t seen what they turned up on last season’s dig, so I’ll need to poke around there for a while. They’re making great progress establishing the probable architecture which once graced the courtyard of the complex.

One morning I’ll climb up the Madras road at sunrise. There’s one path which leads to a small ledge on the cliff facing the famous Treasury (of Indiana Jones fame). Perched high above the ruins below, I can sit for hours watching Petra come to life--the Bedouin tea-shop and souvenir sellers, the park employees cleaning up yesterday’s discarded water bottles, the energetic early visitors, and finally the streams of eager tour groups, each following their guide like baby geese following their mother.

I will sit and watch them all lose the power of speech at the grace and majesty of the soaring facade, and they’ll never know I’m there. Yes, it would be nice to be a vacationer in Petra again. I get caught in my daily routines of work and play, and sometimes forget all this marvelous city is just a few steps outside my door!

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Alexandria, Egypt, was founded by Alexander the Great This city located by the Mediterranean Sea, this city was the center of ancient history. Some of these places are no long visible because of the ravages of war. Though the spirit of the ancients are still there in the atmosphere of the rebuilt city -Egypt’s capital for over a thousand years Alexendria was the home of two of the Seven wonders of the acient world -Lighthouse of Alexandria, when build it guided sailor to the port.

This on one of the tallest building in the ancient world until the pyramids were built -The Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa--know also for the mass burial of though who killed by an emperor. Pharaoh’s and kings were buried there in the catacombs -The Library of Alexandria, the largest library in the ancient world know to house every book written at that time. Crystal coffin of Alexander the Great which was lost during the war - Julius Caesar a visitor of Cleopatra -ruled under imperial power, it was one of the most important cities of the ancient world.

Other points of interest; still standing is "Pompey’s Pillar" one of the better known ancient monument. The Alexander catacombs which had been for gotten and now viewable Ptolemaic colonnade and streets in the north-east of the city were excavated in the last century There are so many excavations and unearthing of new ancient site that a visit to this city would take the full week, with very little sleep. A lifetime of great memories would be contained in that visit..

Rome! Ah this is a great question for me to answer since I am such a worldwide traveler. I would love to visit Rome and see all the amazing history that has been there for eons.

After a trip to Norway next year, Italy is next. After my parents visited there I couldn't wait to get there and explore as well. Sources: myself Google Map No map found..

1 After reading roseredcity's wonderful answer, I would have to say Petra. That city would never have crossed my mind.

After reading roseredcity's wonderful answer, I would have to say Petra. That city would never have crossed my mind.

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