The Seven Ancient Wonders

Participants: Constantinescu Eliza, Furtuna Stefania, Popa Alexandra

The 7 Ancient Wonders of the world

A great trip aroun of the 7 Ancient Wonders

Hi! We are Alexandra and Stepheny and we will be your guide. We are going to travel around the world to discover the history of 7 ACIENT WONDERS.

Let's start the adventure!

The Great Pyramid of Giza

Hi! We start our travel at the pyramid. How much it is cost to can arrive there. Well...The ticket to plane from Cairo is it cost 214 Euro. Rent to hotel for 2 night it is cost 100 lire. The prise for the enter to the museums cost 160 lire or a little more. How much time will you spent here? You will spend 3 hour or more at this pyramid. You musten't climb on the pyramid. You must take refreshin clothes because in the Egypt is very hot and you must to protect your body and you must feel comfortable. A little history: The Great Pyramid of Giza ( knwons with the name Pyramid of Keops) is the oldest and the biggest of the 3 Pyramid of Giza Pyramid Complex bordering present-day Giza in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It is the oldest of the 7 Ancient Wonders and alone wich remains intact.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon was one if the 7 Ancient Wonders of the world listed by Hellenic culture. They were described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of garden with level wich have a big variety of tree, shrubs and vines, like a big green mountain build of mud bricks. It was said that was build in the Babilon the old town, near now Hillah , the Babil province from Irak. The Hanging Gardens' name is derived from the Greek name kremastos, witch has a broader meaning than the modern eanglish word "hanging" and refers at the planted trees on the raise structure such as a terrase. According to a legend , the Hanging Gardens was build with a grand palace known with the name of The Marvel of Mankid,by the Neo- Babylionan king the second Nabucondonosor . The Hanging Gardens are only of the 7 Ancient Wonders for witch the location has not been definitively established.

The Temple of Artemis or Artemisons (Ephesus, Turkey)

The Temple of Artemis or Artemision(Ephesus,Turkey), also known less precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis (associated with Diana, a Roman goddess). It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). The price of a ticket starts at 197 € and go up to 469 €.

The statue of Zeus at Olympia

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m tall, made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of Zeus there. Zeus was the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. The price of a ticket starts at 100 € and go up to 325€.

Mausoleum at Halicarnas

The Mausoleum of Halicarnas is one of the 7 Ancient Wonders. The Mausoleum at Halicarnas is located today in Bodrum from Turkey. It is very easy to go there by plane. The time of travel by plane is 2 hours. For can visit the remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnas it is cost 2 euro. The Mausoleum at Halicarnas or the Mausolus tomb was a tomb built through 353 and 350 BC in Hallicarnas (now Bodrum, Turky) for Mausolus. The Mausoleum was approximately 45 m high and the other four swill were trimmed with sculptural reliefs. The finished structure by Mausoleum was considerated to be such an aesthetic triumph, that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of these 7 Ancient Wonders. It was destroyed by the successive earthqakes from de 12- 15 century, the last survivor from the 6 Ancient Wonders destroyed.

The Light House of Alexandria

In Alexandria,Egypt was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC), which has been estimated to be at least 100 metres in overall height.One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, for many centuries it was one of the tallest. The price of a ticket starts at 290 €and go up to 675€.

The Colossus of Rhodes

In Rhodes,Greek was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.

The price of a ticket starts at 226 € and can go up to 555 €. According to most contemporary descriptions, the Colossus stood 33 metres (108 feet) high— approximately two thirds the height of the modern Statue of Liberty making it the tallest statue in the ancient world.

This was the Great Trip! I hope we help you and you will visit this Ancient Wanders!

We were Alexandra and stephanie.see you again to the next trip!