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Qutub Minar, Delhi

Apr 262010

The Qutb Minar (Qutab or Qutub) a tower in Delhi, India, is at 72.5 meters the world’s tallest brick minaret. Construction commenced in 1193 under the orders of India’s first Muslim individual Qutb-ud-din Aibak, and the topmost storey of the minaret was complete in 1386 by Firuz Shah Tughluq. The Qutb Minar is notable for being digit of the earliest and most prominent examples of Indo-Islamic architecture.

Qutub Minar

It is surrounded by several other ancient and nonmodern structures and ruins, collectively known as Qutb complex. The Byzantine is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is digit of the most popular traveler destinations in Delhi, and was also India’s most visited monument in 2006, as it attracted 3.9 million visitors, even more than the Taj Mahal, which drew about 2.5 million visitors.

Qutub Minar, Delhi GPS coordinates: 28° 31′ 27.68″ N, 77° 11′ 6.89″ E

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Tomb of Askia

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Jan 292010

The Tomb of Askia, in Gao, Mali, is believed to be the burial place of Askia Mohammad I, digit of Songhai’s most prolific emperors. It was shapely at the end of the ordinal century and is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. UNESCO describes the spot as a dust like warning of the monumental mud-building traditions of the West African Sahel. The complex includes the pyramidal tomb, two mosques, a cemetery and an assembly ground. At 17 metres in height it is the largest pre-colonial architectural monument in the region. It is the prototypal warning of an Islamic architectural style that later spread throughout the region.

Tomb of Askia

Relatively recent modifications to the place have included the expansion of the mosque buildings in the 1960s and mid-1970s, and the 1999 construction of a surround around the site. It has also been regularly replastered throughout its history, a impact essential to the maintenance and repair of mud structures. Electricity was added in the early 2000s, allowing for ceiling fans, lights and a loud speaker mounted on top.
Askia is in regular use as a mosque and a publicly owned cultural edifice for the city of Gao. The place and a pilot area around it are protected by both domestic and local laws.
GPS coordinates: 16° 17′ 23″ N, 0° 2′ 40″ W
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Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Egypt

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Sep 052009

Saint Catherine’s Monastery lies next to the Sinai Peninsula, next to the way out of an inaccessible gorge on the foot of Mount Sinai featuring in Saint Katherine urban arrived Egypt. The monastery is Greek Orthodox also is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Saint Catherine's Monastery

According on the way to the UNESCO information (60100 ha // Ref: 954) after that website hereunder, this monastery has been called the oldest working Christian monastery featuring in the world though the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated diagonally the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, moreover holds ask for on the way to that designation. The monastery documents preserves the succeeding biggest pool of ahead of schedule codices along with manuscripts wearing the world, outnumbered only in the Vatican Library. Its potency mendacity wearing Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Armenian, Hebrew, Georgian, furthermore Syriac texts. The Codex Sinaiticus, at this point now the British Library, gone the monastery wearing the 19th century in place of Russia, during state of affairs that are at once unclear. Egypt trip advisor.

Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Egypt GPS coordinates: 28° 33′ 20″ N, 33° 58′ 34″ E

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Poblet Monastery, Spain

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May 302009

Poblet Monastery

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet is a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151, located in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, in Catalonia (Spain). It was founded by Cistercian monks from France. The main architect was Arnau Bargués. It was the royal pantheon of the kings of the Crown of Aragon since James I of Aragon. This monastery was abandoned in 1835 and was restored during the 1940s. This monastery was the first of three sister monasteries, known as the Cistercian triangle, that helped consolidate power in Catalonia in the 12th century. (The other two are Vallbona de les Monges and Santes Creus). It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since 1991. The altar (1527) was sculpted by Damián Forment. Nice Spain tourist spot.
Spain GPS travel destinations: 41° 22′ 51″ N, 1° 4′ 57″ E

Poblet Monastery, Spain GPS coordinates: 41° 22′ 51″ N, 1° 4′ 57″ E

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Tikal antigua Guatemala

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Dec 082008

Tikal is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Mayan civilization. It is located in the El Petén department of Guatemala at Now part of Guatemala’s Tikal National Park, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a popular tourist spot.

Tikal

The closest large towns are Flores and Santa Elena, approximately 64 kilometres (40 mi) by road to the southwest. Tikal was one of the major cultural and population centers of the Maya civilization. Though monumental architecture at the site dates to the 4th century BC, Tikal reached its apogee during the Classic Period, ca. 200 AD to 900 AD, during which time the site dominated the Maya region politically, economically, and militarily while interacting with areas throughout Mesoamerica, such as central Mexican center of Teotihuacan. There is also evidence that Tikal was even conquered by Teotihuacan in the 4th century A.D. Following the end of the Late Classic Period, no new major monuments were built at Tikal and there is evidence that elite palaces were burned. These events were coupled with a gradual population decline, culminating with the site’s abandonment by the end of the 10th century. Guatemala travel guides.
GPS coordinates: 17° 13′ 19″ N, 89° 37′ 22″ W

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Chavin de Huantar, Lima

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Nov 242008

Chavin de Huantar

Chavin de Huantar is an archaeological site containing ruins and artifacts originally constructed by the Chavín, a pre-Inca culture, around 900 B.C. The site is located 250 kilometers north of Lima, Peru at an elevation of 3150 meters, between the Andean mountain ranges of the Cordillera Negra and the Cordillera Blanca. Chavin de Huantar has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Some of the Chavin reliefs from this archaeological site are on display in the Museo de la Nacion in Lima. Findings at Chavin de Huantar indicate that social instability and upheaval began to occur between 500 and 300 B.C., at the same time that the larger Chavin civilization began to decline. Large ceremonial sites were abandoned, some unfinished, and were replaced by villages and agricultural land. At Chavin de Huantar, no later than 500 B.C., a small village replaced the Circular Plaza. The plaza was occupied by a succession of groups, and building stones and stone carvings were salvaged for use in house walls. Multiple occupation floors indicate the village was continuously occupied through the 1940’s. Lima travel attractions.
GPS travel destinations: 9° 35′ 33.99″ S, 77° 10′ 42.43″ W

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