New Seven Wonders Named

The New Seven Wonders are The Great Wall of China; Petra, Jordan; the statue of Christ the Redeemer, Brasil; Machu Picchu, Peru; Chichén Itzá, Mexico; the Colosseum, Italy; and the Taj Mahal, India.

Nominations could be made for monuments from all countries and continents built from the "earliest time that Man began to make his mark upon the Earth to the year 2000 A.D." However, monuments had to be human-built and in an acceptable state of preservation, they had to have artistic or architectural value, they had to be universally recognizable, and they had to reflect and celebrate the cultural and social diversity of the peoples of the world.

New7Wonders campaign was organised by the New7Wonders Foundation, which aims to document, maintain, restore and reconstruct world heritage under the motto "Our heritage is our future."

 

The Foundation was created in 2001 by Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber, with a mission to protect humankind's heritage across the globe. The initial stages of the New7Wonders campaign were financed by Weber himself, aided by a small number of committed N7W Members.

Fifty percent of all net revenue raised by the New 7 Wonders Project is to be used to fund restoration efforts worldwide. One such project is the mission to re-create the giant Bamiyan Buddha statue in Afghanistan, which was featured in the Swiss Pavilion along with the New 7 Wonders project at the 2005 World Fair in Japan.