Page

▼
Showing posts with label New Seven Wonders of the World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Seven Wonders of the World. Show all posts
August 14, 2015

0425, 1817 MEXICO (Yucatán) - Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza (UNESCO WHS)

›
0425 Chichén Itzá - Aerial view Posted on 21.12.2012, 14.08.2015 What postcard would be more apropriate for today, December 21, 2012...
7 comments:
June 21, 2014

0535, 554, 1109 JORDAN - Petra (UNESCO WHS)

›
Posted on 02.03.2013, 15.03.2013, and 21.06.2014   "...from the rock as if by magic grown, / eternal, silent, beautiful, alone!...
October 16, 2013

0058, 0151, 0842 CHINA (Shanxi / Inner Mongolia / Hebei) - The Great Wall (UNESCO WHS)

›
China (and also India) seems to use another scale than Europe. Whether it comes to population, surface, the height of the mountains, th...
April 25, 2013

0616 PERU (Cusco) - Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (UNESCO WHS)

›
"Dimly I began to realize that this wall and its adjoining semicircular temple over the cave were as fine as the finest stonework ...
1 comment:
October 27, 2012

0369 BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro) - Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea (UNESCO WHS)

›
After a failed attempt, due to lack of funds, to erect a religious monument in 1850 on the peak of the 700m Corcovado mountain, overloo...
June 11, 2012

0246 INDIA (Uttar Pradesh) - Taj Mahal (UNESCO WHS)

›
Architects from Persia and Ottoman Empire, sculptors and masons from Bukhara, Constantinople and Samarkand, stonecutters from Baluchist...
January 30, 2012

0111 EGYPT (Cairo) - Memphis and its Necropolis - the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur (UNESCO WHS)

›
This view of the pyramids at Giza , from the plateau to the south of the complex, is, without doubt, one of the most popular. From righ...