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The New 7 Wonders of the World was a campaign started in 2001 to choose Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments. [1] The popularity poll via free web-based voting and telephone voting was led by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber [ 2 ] and organized by the New 7 Wonders Foundation (N7W) based in Zurich, Switzerland, with ...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (from left to right, top to bottom): Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (also known as the Mausoleum of Mausolus), Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria as depicted by 16th-century Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck.
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The City of Vigan is a Unesco World Heritage Site in that it is one of the few Hispanic towns left in the Philippines where its structures remained intact, and is well known for its cobblestone streets, and a unique architecture that fuses Philippine and Oriental building designs and construction, with colonial European architecture.
This announcement was made following the campaign's efforts to establish a new list of modern man-made wonders. Seven Natural Wonders was established to protect the original vision and declaration of the seven natural wonders of the world. Their list [1] of the natural wonders includes: Aurora Borealis (also known as the northern lights)
The city is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [ 6 ] The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, [ 7 ] and was settled by the Nabataeans , a nomadic Arab people, in the 4th century BC.
Marjing Polo Statue in Marjing Polo Complex, Imphal East, Manipur - 122 feet (37 m), [a] [7] [8] completed in 2022–23, is the world's tallest equestrian statue of a polo player [9] [10] Monument To Gral. José Gervasio Artigas In Minas, Uruguay - 18 meters tall, 9 meters long, weight 150,000 kilos 1974
Christ the Redeemer (statue), New 7 Wonders of the World FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Sculpture Creator Donatas Dabravolskas. Support as nominator – Vinícius O. 01:00, 9 June 2024 (UTC) Oppose The moon reduces the EV here by adding a distraction. The image is also only in a gallery in the article.