The Seven Wonders Of The World Famous

Wikipedia explains that the source of the New Seven Wonders of the World or the new seven wonders of the world (2000-2007) was an initiative started in 2000 as a Millennium project to choose Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing monuments. Popularity poll was led by Bernard Weber and organized by the New7Wonders Foundation based in Zurich, Switzerland with winners announced on July 7, 2007 in Lisbon.
New 7 Wonders Foundation states that more than 100 million votes were cast through the Internet or by telephone. Voting over the Internet is limited to one vote per person for seven monuments / identity, while on the phone a few sounds that might be, so the poll was considered unscientific. According to John Zogby, founder and current President / CEO of the Utica, an organization based in New York poll Zogby International, New7Wonders Foundation drove "the largest poll on record".
The program attracted the attention of various parties. Some countries touted finalist and tried to get more votes cast for it, while others belittle or criticize the contest. After supporting the New 7 Wonders Foundation at the beginning of the campaign, by providing recommendations for the selection of candidates, Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with rules that must record all and give it the same status as a world heritage site abstain from such business in 2001 and again in 2007.
New7Wonders Foundation was established in 2001, relied on private donations and the sale of broadcast rights and does not receive public funds or taxpayer money. In 2007 the foundation launched New7Wonders of Nature, which is the subject of voting until November 11, 2011. New7Wonders Cities is the current project, with voting until July 2014.
Unfortunately, Komodo Island of Indonesia was not able to get into the list of the new seven wonders of the world. On the dragon is an ancient animal that is still remaining. The defeat was due to a poll from the internet or the phone is far less than the seven other candidates, despite the fact that Komodo Island was included in the seven major. Here is a list of the seven wonders of the world, as reported by The Richest (03/06/2014). Photos of the seven wonders of the world by The Richest.

1. The Great Wall Of China

One of the biggest landmarks that exist in human civilization, the Great Wall of China stretches over a stretch of desert, plains, and mountains like a giant dragon. It took more than 2,000 years to complete the wall, from the 7th century BC to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD), and is intended to protect China from the Mongol invasion, the greatest enemy at the time. The first and most remarkable part took 10 years to build. After the unification of China by the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, between 221-206 BC, the various parts of the walls together. Largest structure in the world, given the volume, the wind down to the north of the country, connecting the east to Jiayuguan to Shanhaiguan to the west, stretching for 3,889 miles. Made of brick, stone, and wood, is believed to have cost about $ 260 billion to build the Great Wall of China when converted at this time. At that time, the Chinese people were forced by the Emperor Qin Shi Hunag to build a wall without any pay. Many of them died of fatigue and other diseases, because they have to carry a very large rock. The bodies were buried in a hole near the wall, not on the wall as many legends in circulation, which will cause weak spots that could destroy the Great Wall of China.

2. Taj Mahal India

Taj Mahal is an architectural monument of India's largest, was built by the fifth Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his beloved wife of the third, Mumtaz Mahal, a Persian princess who died during the birth of their 14th child. Construction remarkable monument began in 1642 and took 20,000 workers, 1,000 elephants to carry building materials, and 22 years to complete. Built in white marble brought from various countries, the Taj Mahal is decorated in Tibetan turquoise, agate Yemen, Ceylon sapphire, amethyst Persian, Arabic coral, jade Chinese, Russian bronze, and pearl of the Indian Ocean. The color seems to change depending on time of day and moonlight. According to legend, this project is the work of famous Turkish architect Ustad Isa Khan ie. Once completed, the emperor ordered his cut so he could never be able to create something as spectacular as the Taj Mahal. Back in 1640, cost $ 8 million to build, which will be translated into more than $ 1 billion in today's money.

3. Colosseum Rome

Was originally called the Flavian Amphitheatre, after the family name of the emperor Vespasian, the Colosseum is the most impressive building of the Roman Empire. Emperor Vespasian started building the Colosseum in 72 AD. After seven years of hard work and sweat, the building does not even reach a quarter of its peak. But against all odds, a magnificent building dedicated a year later, after Titus took over the throne. The celebration lasted 100 days, but a few years later his brother Domitian finally finished. This giant amphitheater built on an artificial lake, part of a park that was built by Emperor Nero in downtown Rome, which included Colossus, a giant statue of Nero, the name of the amphitheater. At first, the battle between the animals, it comes the turn of men to fight the beast, and finally the gladiators who fought to live or die. Seating 50,000 spectators, cost between $ 750 million to $ 1 billion today to build the colossal structure.

4. Acient City Of Petra, Yordania

This is a remarkable archaeological treasures, the city carved in reddish rocky cliffs in Petra is a priceless jewel of Jordan. This is a hidden masterpiece of the West for more than 2,000 years, until discovered by a Swiss explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. redness City is 162 miles south of the Jordanian capital Aman, and built on a terrace near the Valley of Moses. The city is more than 2,600 years of historic, architectural and continues to dazzle with a very large, massive structure, an ingenious complex drainage system, all of which stood firm. The capital of the Nabatean legendary, the Arab population who ruled the region until the Roman conquest, is a complex of temples and buildings carved in stone.

5. Machu Picchu Andes, Peru 

The famous Inca ruins discovered by archaeologist Hiram Bingham in 1911 is one of the relics of the loveliest and most mysterious civilizations in the world. City of Machu Picchu was built in the rock between the two wings of the mountains of the eastern mountain chain of the Andes, dominating the Urubamba River valley is narrow and steep. At an altitude of 8,000 meters above sea level, surrounded by agricultural terraces sufficient to feed the entire population of the city, irrigated by natural springs, with palaces, baths, temples, granaries, and more than 150 houses shrouded in clouds. However, the sweat and hard work is definitely hard to beat everything. Some bricks weighing more than 50 tonnes of carved carefully. Built around 1450 as a resting place for the Inca emperor, it took almost 100 years to complete, and was abandoned soon after the Spanish conquest.

6. El Castillo Chichen Itza, Meksiko

Located in the north-central area of ​​the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Chichen Itza is a pre-Columbian fortress, once the political and economic center of Maya civilization. The fort was built around the year 600 and the center of the building is rung Mesoamerican pyramid, El Castillo, with a total of 365 steps, the number of days in a year. Square-based pyramid as a temple and was designed so that during all of the equinox, sunset will cast a shadow of a figure resembling a snake down the north stairs of the building. This snake is actually an allegorical representation of the Mayan god Kukulcan, also known as the feathered serpent. The fort and the pyramid was abandoned during the Spanish conquest in the 19th century, the monument was already closed vegetation. The cost of building and architectural secrets remain a mystery.

6. Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro

 

Dominating of Rio de Janeiro from atop Mount Corvocado, the statue of Christ the Redeemer stands firmly at an altitude of 2,329 feet above the base that doubles as a chapel. Inaugurated in 1931, the idea to build a giant statue on the mountain as a landmark dates from 1921, when the Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro Brazil decided to commemorate the Centenary of Independence. The archdiocese organized an event called Semana do Monumento, "Sunday monuments," to attract donations, mainly made by Catholics. The cost to build a monument for $ 250,000 in 1931, or about $ 3.5 million today. He weighs more than 1,000 tons, the giant statue can be seen both day and night from every corner of the city.