Places in Jordan - Mushatta palace

The palace is located at one end of Queen Alia international airport. It was built during the time of the Umayyad caliph Abdelmalik in the 8th century AD, and it was never finished due to the death of the owner of the palace.

It was surrounded by a huge wall measuring 144 m. and supported by semi-circular towers. The palace itself measures 1802 m. It was built using red heated stones.

During the installation of the Turkish railway in Jordan in 1903, a long part of the wall was taken away to Berlin in Germany, after the German engineers persuaded the Sultan that the wall would be destroyed anyway by the extension of the railway, and so he agreed to give it away as a gift to Germany.