Taj Mahal, Agra,(INDIA) the most famous of all India's ancient buildings and a prime monument of Mughal art. It was built as the mausoleum of Arjumand Banu Bagam, known as Mumtaz Mahal (the Elect of the Palace), wife of Shah Jahan. She died in 1631, while on a military campaign with her husband.
The Taj Mahal took 20 years to construct: 20,000 men were said to have been involved in the project. The tomb itself, over 73 m (240 ft) high, is lavishly decorated with Koranic inscriptions and carved reliefs. It is raised on a square podium with a minaret at each corner. It is flanked by a mosque and the jawab, a building with no clear function other than the balancing of the composition. The great garden which prefaces the tomb is 300 m (1,000 ft) wide; it has a great pool at its centre and is entered through an imposing gate. Mosques and tombs of other, less-favoured wives cluster nearby. The cenotaphs of Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan, who died in 1666, standing in a central octagonal hall, are elaborately carved and surrounded by a perforated screen of marble and semi-precious stones. It is elected as a one of the world wonder which was announced on 07/07/2007.
STATUE OF CHRIST REDEEMER
Christ the Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro) (Port., Cristo Redentor), monumental statue of Christ overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and one of the city's major tourist attractions. It is situated on top of Corcovado (“hunchback”) Mountain, 713 m (2,340 ft) high, and is reached either by road or by a funicular railway. It was commissioned from the French sculptor Paul Landowski in 1921, to celebrate the centenary of Brazil's independence from Portugal in that year, and was completed in 1931. The figure stands 30 m (100 ft) high and is set on a pedestal 6 m (20 ft) high. It is constructed of granite and weighs about 700 tons. Christ is portrayed with his arms outstretched, as if embracing the city.
It is Rio's top tourist attracton,with about 1.8 million visitors a year. it was inaugurated 75 years ago on Brazil's Mt. corcavado, after 5 years if workon the building of the road and rail line to the peak.
CHICHEN ITZA PYRAMID
The sacred city of the Itza, called chichen Itza in maya is located 75 miles east of marida, the capital of the state of yucatan,mexico. the ancient city whose name means "in the mouth at the Itzáe's Well", was, in its time of grandeur (between 800 and 1200 A.D.), the centre of political, religious and military power in Yucatán, if not all of South-eastern Meso America.
In its architecture one can observe a gradual change in style, starting with the Puuc style, also shared with Uxmal and other sites in the Penninsula and cluminating with the so-called Mayan Toltec style, due to the architectural similiarities with Tula, capital of the Ancient Toltecs, and with other sites in Central Mexico, such as Oaxaca and the Gulf Coast
ROMAN COLOSSEUM
Colosseum, also Coliseum, amphitheatre, considered one of the greatest buildings from antiqui
ty, located in Rome, Italy. Begun around ad 72 by the Roman emperor Vespasian, it was dedicated by his son Titus in ad 80. The Colosseum was considered a great feat of architecture and engineering for various reasons, including its scale, the fact that it was free-standing, the grandeur of its decoration, and the way in which its layout facilitated both the production of extravagant spectacles and the necessary crowd control of the large numbers of people attending the events.
ty, located in Rome, Italy. Begun around ad 72 by the Roman emperor Vespasian, it was dedicated by his son Titus in ad 80. The Colosseum was considered a great feat of architecture and engineering for various reasons, including its scale, the fact that it was free-standing, the grandeur of its decoration, and the way in which its layout facilitated both the production of extravagant spectacles and the necessary crowd control of the large numbers of people attending the events.MACHU PICCHU
It is a pre-Columbian Inca city located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft) altitude[1] on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, about 70 km (44 mi) northwest of Cusco. Machu Picchu is probably the most familiar symbol of the Inca Empire. It is often referred to as "The Lost City of the Incas". The site was designated as a World Heritage Site in 1983 when it was described as "an absolute masterpiece of architecture and a unique testimony to the Inca civilization".THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The construction of The Great Wall of China started over 2000 years ago. it extends from the pacific ocean to the boarder of central asia. streaching over 6,400km, it is the largest sructure ever built by humans in terms of surface area and mass.it is one of the largest building construction project ever completed.
Several walls, referred to as the Great Wall of China, were built since the 5th century BC, the most famous being the one built between 220 BC and 200 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. That wall was much farther north than the current wall, built during the Ming Dynasty, and little of it remains.
It is an archaeological site in southwestern Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor in a bas
in among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. Burgon had not actually visited Petra, which remained accessible only to Europeans accompanied by local guides with armed escorts until after World War I. The site was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985 when it was described as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage."
