The Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) is one of Africa’s most famous landmarks
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Great Mosque of Djenné
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Chand Baori is a stepwell in the village of Abhaneri in Rajasthan (India)
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As others look on, an Indian youth jumps into the historic Chand Baori stepwell
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Probably, the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest (Romania) is the largest civil administration building in the world
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The Alexandru Ioan Cuza Hall dwarfs foreign tourists… another name for this building is the “House of the People”
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The Stari Most (Old Bridge) is a 22-metre-high (72-foot-high) reconstruction of a 16th-century Ottoman bridge over the Neretva River in Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina… in 1993, Croatian forces destroyed the original bridge during the Croat-Bosniak War
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A diver leaps from the Stari Most in a traditional bridge diving competition
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Kumbhalgarh Fort, in the former princely state of Udaipur/Mewar (Rajahsthan (India))… its walls extend over 38 kilometres (23.7 miles), making them the second-longest continuous wall after the Great Wall of China
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Kumbhalgarh Fort
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Built in the early 17th-century, Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque in Isfahan (Iran) is one of the greatest architectural masterpieces of Safavid Iranian architecture
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Interior of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
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Derawar Fort, a massive square fortress in Bahawalpur in Pakistan… the fortress has 40 towering bastions; the circumference of its 30-metre-high (99-foot-high) walls is about 1.5 kilometres (0.94 mile)
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Derawar Fort
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Some man-made “wonders of the world”, such as the Colosseum or Taj Mahal, have much fame, but there are many more architectural masterpieces scattered across the globe that aren’t quite so famous.
27 February 2016
Sputnik International
https://sputniknews.com/photo/20160227/1035439233/hidden-world-wonders-photo.html
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