How to look like the famous walls, still preserved (photo)
Large-scale structures influenced the course of history.
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For millennia, people have built walls. Some of them defended and preserved, others were separated and isolated, but they were all part of the great history of mankind. Up to our days preserved all the buildings: something was destroyed by nature, but something the people themselves. However, even part of the walls reminded of the value they had at the time.
The great wall of China
This is perhaps the most famous wall in the world. They say that this is the only man-made object visible from space (but is debatable). The wall was built in the XIV century to protect the Northern borders of the Chinese Empire from attacks by nomadic tribes. Its length is impressive — 8,851 kilometer, and with all the branches it is 21,196 kilometers. Due to the great interest of tourists, some sections of the wall are now actively being restored, but others are in remote areas, continues to deteriorate.
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The infamous wall where now there was only a small part of “the history” is the most “young” in building our list. Its construction in the middle of Berlin began in 1961 — at the height of the cold war. Wall, stretching 155 kilometers, is the state border of the GDR and had to stop the flight of East Berliners to the West. In 1989, the wall has ceased to perform its functions, and it began to demolish.
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The Western Wall also known as Wailing Wall, one of the most famous attractions of Jerusalem, an important religious place. Built more than 2 thousand years ago on the West side of the Second temple (it was used as a support for an earthen mound). After the destruction of the temple by the Romans in the year 70 ad, the wall remained intact and became a place of pilgrimage for Jews. The Western wall is built of limestone blocks weighing from 2 to 8 tons without any fastening solution. By the way, the construction of about a third is hidden under the ground: to rise above the surface 28 of the 45 rows of masonry.
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Europe has its own Great wall, also known as Stonska wall. It was built in the XIV century to protect the city of Dubrovnik and its salt lakes, as salt production was at the time one of the main items of income of the region. The length of the wall is 5.5 km away, there were built 40 towers and 5 fortresses.
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This structure are often called the Indian great wall: it is the second longest after the great wall of China. The wall was built by the project of the ruler of the Indian Principality of Mewar Maharana Kumbha to protect the medieval Fort of Kumbhalgarh. A giant building was built more than a century. Now this allowed tourists and hold festivals and holidays.
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Hadrian’s wall, named in honour of the Emperor Hadrian, was built by the Romans in 122-128 years to protect the colony Britannia from the attacks of the unsubdued tribes of Scotland and Northern England. Fortification with a length of 117 kilometres and had a width of 3 meters and a height on different sites varied from 4 to 6 meters. To the present day preserved the foundations and fragments of walls, as well as three fortresses. Hadrian’s wall is under protection of UNESCO, and in its southern part are two Museum.
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