World Wonders Seven

               New Seven Wonders of the World

  • Great Wall of China. 
  • Chichén Itzá El Castillo, a Toltec-style pyramid, Yucatán state, Mexico. 
  • Petra. the Khaznah. 
  • Machu Picchu Peru. 
  • Christ the Redeemer statu.
  • Colosseum. 
  • Taj Mahal.
                           Great Wall of China
              
        

The Great Wall of China is an ancient wall in China. ... It was finished in 1878 and it was meant to protect the north of the empire of China from enemy attacks. It is the longest structure humans have ever built. It is about 21,196 kilometers long, 9.1 metres (30 feet) wide and 15 metres high.

                                                       El Castillo 
          
            

                  
Chichen Itza was a large Mayan city by the Maya civilization. ... There are many temples and pyramids in Chichen Itza. Tourists, or visitors, were once able to climb some of the pyramids, but it was quite challenging because the steps are very steep and small. Climbing is no longer permitted.

                                                Petra    

                  


Petra, originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu or Raqēmō, is a historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. It is adjacent to the mountain of Jabal Al-Madbah, in a basin surrounded by mountains forming the eastern flank of the Arabah valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.

                                      Machu  picchu peru

              
             


Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a 2,430-meter mountain ridge. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which is 80 kilometers northwest of Cuzco.
  
                            Christ the Redeemer statu 


                   

Christ the Redeemer is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot. Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Leonida fashioned the face.

                                      Colosseum      


                     

The Colosseum is an oval amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world today, despite its age.

                                    Taj Mahal    

            
            

The Taj Mahal (/ˌtɑː məˈhɑːl, ˌtɑːʒ-/;[4] lit.'Crown of the Palace', [taːdʒ ˈmɛːɦ(ə)l]),[5] is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the southern bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (reigned from 1628 to 1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.

                                               

                    

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