--- title: "Ur Tourist City – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ur Tourist City, Iraq: Ur Tourist City is a modern heritage and tourism hub established beside the archaeological site of the Sumerian city Ur in Dhi Qar…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ur-tourist-city" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ur-tourist-city.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- City in Dhi Qar, Iraq # Ur Tourist City Ur Tourist City is a modern heritage and tourism hub established beside the archaeological site of the Sumerian city Ur in Dhi Qar, Iraq, home to the Ziggurat of Ur and – according to Bible and Q'uran – the birthplace of Abraham. The place Ur Tourist City is a modern heritage and tourism hub established beside the archaeological site of the Sumerian city Ur in Dhi Qar, Iraq, home to the Ziggurat of Ur and – according to Bible and Q'uran – the birthplace of Abraham. The project is intended to provide structured access for pilgrims and visitors and to evolve into a functioning modern city incorporating tourism, residential, educational, and cultural components, with buildings designed to reflect ancient Mesopotamian architecture. It includes Iraq's first dedicated film and media production complex, featuring a large studio for historical Mesopotamian-era works. Construction is being implemented in multi-phase stages under the supervision of the Iraqi Council of Ministers. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur_Tourist_City), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Ur Tourist City 2 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. 1. Tell al-'Ubaid Tell al-'Ubaid also is a low, relatively small ancient Near Eastern archaeological site about seven kilometers west of the site of ancient Ur and about 17 kilometers north of ancient Eridu in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. Today, Tell al-'Ubaid lies 250 kilometers from the Persian Gulf, but the shoreline lay much closer to the site during the Ubaid and Early Dynastic periods. 6.1 km · archaeological site in Iraq · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_al-%27Ubaid) 2. Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum is the earliest known public museum. It dates to circa 530 BCE. The curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. 3.1 km · museum in Ur, thought to be the first by some historians · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigaldi-Nanna%27s_museum) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Ur Tourist City **Airports:** Basra (BSR), 158 km · Al Najaf (NJF), 195 km · Abadan Ayatollah Jami (ABD), 216 km\ **Stations:** Nasiriyah International Airport, 6.2 km\ - Basra → Ur Tourist City Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/basra-to-ur-tourist-city) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Basra&to=Ur+Tourist+City) - Najaf → Ur Tourist City Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/najaf-to-ur-tourist-city) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Najaf&to=Ur+Tourist+City) - Baghdad → Ur Tourist City Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/baghdad-to-ur-tourist-city) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Baghdad&to=Ur+Tourist+City) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ur%20Tourist%20City) Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Ur Tourist City 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 Ur Tourist City. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Yeghegnadzor and the Vayots Dzor valley](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yeghegnadzor) AM 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 978 km 2. [Petra and Wadi Musa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/petra) JO 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 1,018 km 3. [Wadi Rum](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/wadi-rum) JO 8 ways of moving, 23 sources 1,036 km 4. [Gyumri](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gyumri) AM 12 ways of moving, 47 sources 1,108 km 5. [Sheki (Şəki)](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sheki) AZ 10 ways of moving, 46 sources 1,140 km If you know how people move in Ur Tourist City – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cur-tourist-city&title=Ur+Tourist+City&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fur-tourist-city), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ur Tourist City Ur Tourist City is 18 km from [Nasiriyah](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/nasiriyah), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Ur](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ur) ancient Mesopotamian city-state 3.1 km [The place page for Ur Tourist City](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ur-tourist-city) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Iraq](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-IQ) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ur-tourist-city, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. 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