In 2001 an initiative
was started by the Swiss corporation
New7Wonders Foundation to choose the
New Seven Wonders of the World from
a selection of 200 existing monuments
for profit. The results were announced
on July 7, 2007 in Benfica's stadium
in a big ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal,
and are listed here:
Great
Wall of China-The
Great Wall of China stands as
a monument not only to the technological
achievement of Chinese civilization,
but also to both the tremendous
cost of human conflict that motivated
such investment in defense and
also to the wisdom that peace
begins with me and my people.
The Ming Dynasty collapsed because
of division within, not because
the wall was breeched by force.
Petra-Petra
is an archaeological site in the
Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan.
It lies on the slope of Mount
Hor in a basin among the mountains
which form the eastern flank of
Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large
valley that stretches from the
Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
Christ
the Redeemer-Christ
the Redeemer is a statue of Jesus
Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The statue stands 30 metres (98
ft) wide and 38 metres (120 ft)
tall with its pedestal. It weighs
635 tons (700 short tons), and
is located at the peak of the
700 metres (2,300 ft) Corcovado
mountain in the Tijuca Forest
National Park overlooking the
city.
Colosseum-The
Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally
the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin:
Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian
Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo),
is an elliptical amphitheatre
in the center of the city of Rome,
Italy, the largest ever built
in the Roman Empire. It is one
of the greatest works of Roman
architecture and Roman engineering
Chichen
Itza-Chichen
Itza ( "At the mouth of the
well of the Itza") is a large
pre-Columbian archaeological site
built by the Maya civilization
located in the northern center
of the Yucatán Peninsula,
in the Yucatán state, present-day
Mexico.
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Machu
Picchu-Machu
Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca
site located 2,430 metres (8,000
ft) above sea level[1]. It is
situated on a mountain ridge above
the Urubamba Valley in Peru, which
is 80 kilometres (50 mi) northwest
of Cuzco and through which the
Urubamba River flows
Taj
Mahal-The
Taj Mahal is a mausoleum located
in Agra, India, built by Mughal
Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of
his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal
The New Seven Wonders
of the World were announced on 7th
July, 2007.
