Friday, March 20, 2009

Indian Wonder:

Golden Temple and the Taj Mahal, the Seven Wonders are all located in small towns or in the countryside. However, four of the twenty monuments listed for voting are located in three metros viz., Delhi's Lotus Temple and Qutab Minar, the Victoria Terminus at Bombay and the Howrah Bridge at Kolkatta.
The seven wonders of India , in the order of their voting are the following.
1. Shravanabelagola or Gomateshwara- a place called Shravanabelagola in the Hassan district of Karnataka state
2. Harmandir Sahib (Golden temple) - located in the city of Amritsar in Punjab
3. Taj Mahal - located in Agra, Uttarpradesh
4. Hampi located in a village in northern Karnataka

5. Konarak - a small town in the state of Orissa
6. Nalanda - an ancient university near Patna in Bihar
7. Khajuraho - a village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh
Brief details are provided below, while individually more details are provided in linked wiki pages.
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