Laura Voltà b2a: The Wonders of the World

Have you ever heard about the wonders of the World? Yes, I'm sure you have. Maybe it sounds better for you if I say that the wonders of the world are also known as "the seven wonders of the world". Isn't that right? But nowadays it's not as correct as it seems to say that.

Pyramids of Giza

In the ancient times, Hellenists made a list of seven great remarkable constructions which they thought they had to be seen before die. Those ones were: the great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Lighthouse of Alexandria. Sadly, only one of this seven wonders is still how it was in older times, without lost of damages: the Pyramids of Giza. Perhaps it’s due to the desert sand or perhaps because its location didn’t suffer as many problems as there could be in Olympia or Babylon.

However, the Wonders of the World have changed through the years. Nowadays they can’t be considered as “the seven Wonders” simply because there are not seven. Years ago it took place a private meeting where a group of important particular companies decided which constructions would be the new wonders of the world. And after knowing the answers of the voting they made, a new list was published and it is said that it continued the older list, the original one I have mentioned before.

Although the exact number of the new wonders is not defined, there are lots of new famous buildings, constructions or statues that have been added in the list.

This is the reason why we cannot say anymore “the seven Wonders of the World” as long as we are not referring to the ancient ones.

Here are some examples of the New Wonders, enjoy them!

PS: I recommend you to take a look on them and choose which one you consider the best (don’t forget the ancient ones!) And then, you would better ask me: which is the next step? And I would say: ask your mum and dad for a new family travel! (That would feel really good after the research project we’ve just done, right?)