Bernard Weber's New 7 Wonders Organization has been running a worldwide campaign to define the world's top wonders in the modern age. We reported on these New 7 Wonders in blogcritics a year ago in a post which saw many partisans of the Meenakshi Amman temple in Madurai, India. Unfortunately, the fans of the Temple were voting on the wrong site.
The organization has announced the shortlist of 21 global landmarks from a series of global votes. This shortlist will now be subject to another year of online voting to select the final New 7 Wonders of the World. The shortlist of landmarks is an inspiring list of fine places to visit:
- Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
- Alhambra (Granada, Spain)
- Angkor (Cambodia)
- Chichen Itza (Yucatán, Mexico)
- Christ the Redeemer (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Colosseum (Rome, Italy)
- Easter Island Statues (Chile)
- Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)
- Great Wall (China)
- Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Kremlin (Moscow, Russia)
- Kyomizu Temple (Kyoto, Japan)
- Machu Picchu (Peru)
- Neuschwanstein Castle (Füssen, Germany)
- Petra (Jordan)
- The Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt)
- Statue of Liberty (New York, United States)
- Stonehenge (Amesbury, United Kingdom)
- Sydney Opera House (Australia)
- Taj Mahal (Agra, India)
- Timbuktu (Mali)
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Article comments
1 - Aaman
I still vote for the Meenakshi Amman temple
2 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
I'd vote for the ruins of the temple at Baalbek, Lebanon. The stones are hewn, are immensely heavy and there is no known way that men could have moved them there at the time period that it is carbon dated at.