It’s a Jordan’s City, built on the ancient biblical site of Medba or Medeba, from which it then took its name. It is located about 35 km south-west of Amman, the capital of the country. The city is located on Via Regia, a road built five thousand years ago, at almost 730 m s.l.m.
Not far from Madaba is Mount Nebo, about 817 m above sea level, and the Dead Sea appears nearby.
Famous for having one of the oldest references to the Holy Land thanks to a mosaic on the floor of the church of San Giorgio.
The mosaic is accompanied by 157 captions in Greek, which mark the main biblical sites of the Middle East, from Egypt to Palestine. Originally, the mosaic was 15 to 25 meters long and 6 meters wide and consisted of about two million cards, of which only a third came to us.
