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The Brazen Serpent Monument on Mount Nebo

Dead Sea & King's Highway

Mount Nebo

The summit from which Moses looked over the Promised Land, with Byzantine mosaics and views to Jericho and Jerusalem.

According to the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses saw the Promised Land from Mount Nebo before he died. Byzantine monks built a church here in the 4th century; today's Memorial Church of Moses, restored by the Franciscans and reopened in 2016, protects superb mosaic floors of hunters, shepherds and animals.

From the terrace next to the Brazen Serpent sculpture you look across the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea to Jericho and, on clear days, to the towers of Jerusalem.

Don't miss

  • Memorial Church of Moses and its mosaics
  • The Brazen Serpent monument
  • Panorama over the Dead Sea and Jericho
The Brazen Serpent Monument on Mount Nebo The renovated church on Mount Nebo Memorial Church of Moses on Mount Nebo, Jordan The summit of Mount Nebo near Madaba

Tours that visit Mount Nebo

Getting around

Private transfers, drivers and guides that cover this area.

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