Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 4603022; 3rd Circle, Jebel Amman)
Part of Le Royal Hotel.
Galleria
CINEMA
( 5934793; Abdoun Circle, Jebel Amman)
Grand Zara Cinema
CINEMA
( 4613260; 3rd Circle, Jebel Amman)
In the Zara Centre behind the Grand Hyatt, with
several fast-food outlets.
Books@café
( 4650457; Omar bin al-Khattab, downtown)
has film nights on Monday.
The various cultural centres also show foreign films regularly (check in the English-lan-
guage media).
Exhibitions & Music
Various foreign cultural centres organise lectures, exhibitions and musical recitals. Darat
al-Funun (
Click here
)
often features recitals of classical and traditional music. The Jordan
National Gallery of Fine Arts (
Click here
)
sometimes has visiting exhibitions of contem-
porary art.
For the exquisite Arabic art of calligraphy, you can watch a master at work in Hassan
Ali Hassan Kanaan's
workshop and gallery
( 0777-888007 or 079-6796391909)
downtown. Call ahead for an appointment to view.
Events are advertised in the local English-language newspapers.
Nightclubs
The clubs and lounges inside the top-end hotels offer an international atmosphere, more
forgiving of Jordanians who want to let their hair down (both figuratively and literally).
Cover charges vary depending on the night and the entertainment but JD15 per person is
fairly standard. Locals dress to impress and expect visitors to make a bit of sartorial effort
too!
Some of the more established nightspots include the following.
JJ's
NIGHTCLUB
