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Landmarks and Monuments
Landmarks are features or places that are highly recognizable. They were originally used to track locations, but they have also become famous as tourist areas. There are people that will save their entire lives to make a trip just to see the Eiffel Tower, the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Great Wall.
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Why was the chateau de versailles built?
Louis XIV did not want his court to be in Paris anymore, he wanted his palace to be a little further away so it would be more quiet and spacious. Originally it was built as a hunting lodge. Then it just grew and grew.
How many tourists visit the Eiffel Tower every year?
Completely impossible to say. This is a 40-acre public open space with eight roads leading into it. How could you possible count the number of visitors, let alone work out how many are tourists?
Paris receives 29,000,000 visitors a year. I suspect 90% of them pass through Place de la Concorde at some point.
How was the Stonehenge discovery?
Stonehenge has never actually been discovered because it was never lost. Since it was built people have always known were it was, even the Romans knew of its existence. The only real mystery is that knowbody can be absolutely certain why it was built and what its indended purpose was.
How many visitors visit big ben year round?
According to the National Parks Service, the annual number of recreational "visitations" to Big Bend has been on the order of 300,000 since 1991. In 2013 the NPS reports 316,953 such visitations.
Note that this is the number of times a person has entered the park for a recreational visit. If one person visits the park ten times in a calendar year, that counts as ten visitations.
What is the size of the Big Ben?
Big Ben dimensions Height: 96.3 meters (316 feet) The hour hand of Big Ben is 9 feet long and the minutes hand is 14 feet long Clock has a diameter of 23 feet The numerals are 2 feet high each
What do people think of Stonehenge?
Obviously different people think different things about Stonehenge. Some people think it was an astonomical calendar, others a ritual/religious site and yet others think it was a UFO landing site. There is no absolute proof of what its original purpose was so you make up your own mind or just keep an open mind, its your choice.
That depends on if one is afraid of heights. If so, then yes, the London Eye can be frightening. The Eye does, however, move slowly, and the people travelling on are encased in 'pods', rather than hanging freely as would be the case on a 'ferris wheel', so beyond the height, there should be no other reason for fear.
Does the Great Victoria Desert have Ayers Rock?
Ayers Rock (properly called uluru) is the big rock in and of itself, its something in a desert, not the desert itself.
What are examples of famous sites in Venice Italy?
pizza
leaning tower of pizza
itilans
beaches
mafia
cars
the altopedies
How did Romans get water in the colosseum?
There were underground pipes connected to the nearby aqueducts, so that the floor of the colosseum could be flooded to stage full-scale or small-scale naval battles.
The cost of Big Ben was £2401
It should be noted that "Big Ben" is not the tower or the clock but just the bell. The cost of UKP £2,401 is only for casting the bell. There was an adjustment (a credit) of UKP 1,829 from the metal reclaimed from a previous bell. As a result the actual invoice submitted, on 28th May 1858, was for UKP £572.
How long does it take to get to the London eye from big ben?
About 5 minutes, just walk across the bridge.
How did Stonehenge get destroyed?
It didn't. It's still standing, and has been for thousands of years.
Only a couple of pillars have collapsed due to weathering and possibly human disturbance before the Stonehenge became a protected site in modern times.
What is the color of london eye?
this depends if it is night which lights up all different colours or day its just plain white/blue
How many people visit the jules verne i the Eiffel tower?
The Eiffel tower is visited by nearly seven million visitors a year (6,959,186 in 2007).
The Eiffel tower is the world's most visited paying monument.
6 930 000 people visited the Eiffel tower on 2008. The numbers are slightly up each year.
The Eiffel tower is the world's most visited paying monument.
6,959,186 people visited in 2007, and 6,930,000 in 2008.
In 2011, the Eiffel tower had more than 7 million visitors. That represents about a visitor every four seconds, all year round, day and night.
Why was Berlin Wall was Berlin wall so controversial?
The Iron Curtain dividing East and West Germany (and the Eastern Bloc) from the West was completed in 1952. However, there was a gap - in Berlin, where they was freedom of movememt between East and West Berlin. At the Potsdam Conference in 1945 it had been agreed that Berlin was to adminstered as a whole by the four Allies. Of course, with the emergence of the Cold War this became impossible. Refugees and migrants of every kind poured through this gap, and East Germany was rapidly losing skilled people. In 1961 the East German government, in consultation with the Soviet government, built the Berlin Wall, in order to halt migration out of East Germany. It was of course an admission of failure. The Berlin Wall came to have a symbolic and emotional significance that went well beyond its actual importance.
