Ishtar Gate
The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city wall of Babylon.
The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city wall of Babylon. It was constructed c. 569 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city. It was part of a grand walled processional way leading into the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Ishtar Gate
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Babylon
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
2.3 km · capital city of Babylonia and an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq · Wikipedia - 02Esagila
The Ésagila or Esangil was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat Etemenanki.
1.1 km · Temple of Marduk in Iraq (Babylon) · Wikipedia - 03Lion of Babylon
Lion of Babylon is a stone sculpture, over 2,600 years old, that was found in the ancient city of Babylon, Iraq. Its discovery was first documented in 1817 by Claudius Rich, although it may have been seen as early as 1790 by Joseph de Beauchamp.
200 m · sculpture · Wikipedia - 04Al Hilla Stadium
Al Hilla Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Al Hillah, Iraq. It is used mostly for football matches and serves as the home stadium of Babil SC and Al-Hilla SC. The stadium holds 3,000 people.
3.2 km · multi-use stadium in Al Hillah, Iraq · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ishtar Gate
- Airports
- Al Najaf (NJF), 61 km · Baghdad / New Al Muthana Air Base (BGW), 82 km
- Najaf → Ishtar Gate58 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · $5–7
- Baghdad → Ishtar Gate89 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · $8–11
- Kirkuk → Ishtar Gate325 km · quickest by road, 5h 32m · $28–39
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ishtar Gate
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ishtar Gate. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis is where shared taxis to Najaf leave from (approx.
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Next door to Ishtar Gate
Ishtar Gate is 9 km from Al Hillah, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hillahcity in Iraq6.8 km