The New 7 Wonders of the Soil were announced concluded the Endorsed Receive decorum in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 07.07.07.Steady the publicize has later than for close to a day, but I believes, its unflustered use a review and see again similar to in a still...THE WINNERS Tremendous Mound OF CHINA: The 4,160-mile earthwork operational from east to west is the world's best ever false backbone. The constitute of the wall took place once more hundreds of being, beginning in the seventh century B.C. PETRA, JORDAN: This ancient town in southwestern Jordan, built on a gallery approximately Wadi Musa, or Flat of Moses, was the process of the Arab public of the Nabateans. The town is captivating for water tunnels and stone structures engraved in the boulder. CHRIST Liberator Imitation, BRAZIL: The extend arms of the 125-foot statue of the Christ the Liberator overlooks Rio de Janeiro from atop 2,343-foot Prominence Corcovado. MACHU PICCHU, PERU: Built by the Incan Reign in the 15th century, Machu Picchu's defenses, palaces, temples and dwellings are perched in the gas at 8,000 feet exceptional sea level in the Andes. PYRAMID AT CHICHEN ITZA, MEXICO: This pyramid was part of a sacred site in an complete Mayan substance on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. Built according to the solar calendar, shadows at the fall and perfectly equinoxes are held to touch on approaching a twist packed down the steps, obstruct to the engraved serpent at the top. COLOSSEUM, ITALY: The 50,000-seat amphitheater in Rome was inaugurated in A.D. 80 and served as the experience for thousands of gladiators who dueled to the death.TAJ MAHAL, INDIA: The white marble-domed dangerous in Agra combines Indian, Persian and Islamic styles and was built by a 17th century Magnate king for his in husband, who died in childbirth. THE 14 FINALIST PYRAMIDS OF GIZA, EGYPT: These three pyramids, built as tombs for pharaohs 4,500 being ago, are the morally unshakable structures of the ancient seven wonders. No longer standing today, the other fresh wonders were: The Flaccid Precincts of Babylon, the Imitation of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Momentous of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos lighthouse off Alexandria. ACROPOLIS, GREECE: This set-in-stone daze attracts millions of set each day to its prominent Parthenon and statues of Greek gods and goddesses. ALHAMBRA, SPAIN: The palace and castle - similar to the local of the Moorish caliphs who governed southern Spain - guess mosaics, arabesques and mocarabe, or honeycomb work. ANGKOR, CAMBODIA: The archaeological site in Siem Obtain was the process of the Khmer "(Cambodian)" refinement from the ninth to 15th centuries. The 12th century carcass add together Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. EASTER Atoll, CHILE: Hundreds of towering stone busts, or Moais, are all that silt from the primordial culture that crafted them amongst 400 and 1,000 being ago as an compliment to tardy fill with. EIFFEL Riot, FRANCE: The 985-foot materialize, built in 1889 for the Mixed Discourse, symbolizes Paris. The open-lattice flat icon is the Municipality of Light's tallest backbone. HAGIA SOPHIA, TURKEY: After that called the Cathedral of Holy Sagacity, the snatched house of worship was built in 537 A.D. at Constantinople, today's Istanbul. In 1453, Constantinople strike to the Ottomans and the church became a mosque. Not until the pioneering became a museum in 1935 were the Christian mosaics revealed. KIYOMIZU Temple, JAPAN: Kyoto's Kiyomizu-dera, which pathway Total Water Temple, was founded by a Buddhist compartment in 798 and rebuilt in 1633 last a fire. A dose from its channel is alleged to thrash out health, longevity and fertility. KREMLIN AND ST. BASIL'S Church, RUSSIA: Domes with golden cupolas bounded by red block defenses are at the nitty-gritty of Moscow's Kremlin. The Church of St. Aromatic plant the Timely on solid Red Courtyard accept nine towers of newborn colors. NEUSCHWANSTEIN Stronghold, GERMANY: The brain wave for the Slumbering Favor Stronghold at Disneyland, Neuschwanstein is a initiation of senseless Emperor Ludwig II of Bavaria. Suspended on a peak in the Alps, the somber deseed fortress rises to towers, turrets and pinnacles. Imitation OF Room, NEW YORK: A gift of the French track, the 305-foot statue in New York Waterfront has welcomed immigrants and symbolized space while 1886.STONEHENGE, BRITAIN: How and why this handbill commemorative of towering rocks was created amongst 3,000 and 1,600 B.C. is unknown, but some experts say the stones were similar as part of a sun-worshipping culture or lofty calendar.SYDNEY OPERA Homespun, AUSTRALIA: Past a roof reminiscent of a ship in full travel, the opera parliament is situated on Bennelong Fastidious reaching at home Sydney's port. It was considered by Danish think up Jorn Utzon and opened by Ruler Elizabeth II in 1973. TIMBUKTU, MALI: Two of West Africa's oldest mosques, the Djingareyber, or Tremendous Mosque, and the Sankore mosque built concluded the 14th and youthful 15th centuries can unflustered be seen modish in the northern Sahara Suspend. Founded about A.D. 1,100, Timbuktu was a swanky convoy substance and a leading spiritual and well-read substance.http://picwar.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/http://picwar.blogspot.com/feeds/comment/
