DIFFERENT LANDSCAPES IN THE WORLD PRESENTATION

LANDSCAPES IN THE WORLD

1. WORLD FAMOUS LANDSCAPES

2. What Are Landscapes?

3. ‘Landscape’ is a concept which includes the physical environment and people’s perception and appreciation of that environment. It is not restricted to the purely visual, but may comprise and encompass the ways in which individuals and communities perceive the natural and physical resources, as through traditions, lore, and legends that express the significant and memorable elements of a landscape. 

4. Why Are Landscapes Important?

5. Landscapes and features are important because they contribute significantly to our well-being and quality of life. They provide the broader context within which we live our lives. Living within aesthetically pleasing and culturally meaningful landscapes enhances our sense of wellbeing. Visiting largely undeveloped landscapes enables people to re-connect with nature, to refresh their minds and bodies and to gain a greater appreciation of New Zealand's natural heritage. Accessible natural landscapes within close proximity of urban areas, such as the Waitakere Ranges in Auckland and Banks Peninsula in Christchurch, play an important role in increasing the quality of life within those cities. Iconic features such as the volcanic cones in Auckland also contribute to the visual identities of New Zealand's cities and settled areas.  For tangata whenua, the ongoing ability to associate with valued cultural landscapes and to access natural resources within these landscapes for cultural harvest are important elements of cultural well-being.

6. 10 World Famous Landscapes By 2023 Respectively ; Sundly Opera House, Australia Golden Gate Bridge California Statue Of Liberty Stonehenge England Coliseum Rome Eiffel Tower Paris Taj Mahal India Pyramids Of Giza Great Wall Of China Brazil-Amozon River

7. 01. Sundly Opera House, Australia

8. Sydney Opera House, opera house located on  Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour),   New South Wales, Australia. Its unique use of a series of gleaming white sail-shaped shells as its roof structure makes it one of the most-photographed buildings in the world.

9. The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point (originally called Cattle Point), a promontory on the south side of the harbour just east of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was named for Bennelong, one of two Aboriginal people (the other man was named Colebee) who served as  liaisons  between Australia’s first British settlers and the local population. The small building where Bennelong lived once occupied the site. In 1821 Fort Macquarie was built there (razed 1902). In 1947 the resident conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens , identified the need of Australia’s leading city for a musical facility that would be a home not only to the symphony orchestra but also to opera and chamber music groups. The New South Wales government, agreeing that the city should aspire to recognition as a world cultural capital, gave official approval and in 1954  convened  an advisory group, the Opera House Committee, to choose a site. Early the following year the committee recommended Bennelong Point .

10. 02. Golden Gate Bridge California

11. The  Golden Gate Bridge  is a  suspension bridge  spanning the  Golden Gate , the one-mile-wide (1.6 km)  strait  connecting  San Francisco Bay  and the  Pacific Ocean . The structure links the U.S. city of  San Francisco ,  California —the northern tip of the  San Francisco Peninsula —to  Marin County , carrying both  U.S. Route 101  and  California State Route 1  across the strait. It also carries pedestrian and bicycle traffic, and is designated as part of  U.S. Bicycle Route 95 . Recognized by the  American Society of Civil Engineers  as one of the  Wonders of the Modern World , [7]  the bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco and California.

12. The idea of a fixed link between San Francisco and Marin had gained increasing popularity during the late 19th century, but it was not until the early 20th century that such a link became feasible.  Joseph Strauss  served as chief engineer for the project, with  Leon Moisseiff ,  Irving Morrow  and  Charles Ellis  making significant contributions to its design. The bridge opened to the public in 1937 and has undergone various retrofits and other improvement projects in the decades since. The Golden Gate Bridge is described in  Frommer's  travel guide as "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world.  At the time of its opening in 1937, it was both the  longest  and the  tallest  suspension bridge in the world, titles it held until  1964  and  1998  respectively. Its main span is 4,200 feet (1,280 m) and its total height is 746 feet (227 m).

13. 03. Statue Of Liberty

14. On July 4, 1884  France  presented the  United States  with an incredible birthday gift: the Statue of Liberty! Without its pedestal it’s as tall as a 15-story building. She represents the United States. But the world-famous Statue of Liberty standing in  New York  Harbor was built in France. The statue was presented to the U.S., taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in crates, and rebuilt in the U.S. It was France’s gift to the American people.

15. 04. Stonehenge England

16. Stonehenge is a massive stone monument located on Salisbury Plain in southern England. It was built roughly 4,000 to 5,000 years ago and was part of a larger sacred landscape. The bigger stones at Stonehenge, known as sarsens, weigh 25 tons (22.6 metric tons) on average and are widely believed to have been brought from Marlborough Downs, 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the north, according to  English Heritage , an organization that oversees Stonehenge. The monument's smaller stones, referred to as "bluestones" (they have a bluish tinge when wet or freshly broken), come from quarries in the Preseli Hills in western Wales, about 140 miles (225 km) away from Stonehenge, a U.K. research team announced in a 2015 study in the journal  Antiquity . The bluestones weigh between 2 and 5 tons (1.8 and 4.5 metric tons) each, according to English Heritage. Scientists are still unsure exactly how prehistoric people moved the stones over such long distances.

17. 05. Coliseum Rome

18. The Colosseum is the main symbol of Rome. It's an imposing construction that, with almost 2,000 years of history, will bring you back in time to discover the way of life in the  Roman Empire . The construction of the Colosseum began in the year 72 under the empire of Vespasian and was finished in the year 80 during the rule of the emperor Titus. After completion, the Colosseum became the greatest Roman amphitheater, measuring 188 meters in length, 156 meters in width, and 57 meters in height.

19. 06. Eiffel Tower Paris

20. Paris, city and capital of   France , situated in the north-central part of the country. People were living on the site of the present-day city, located along the  Seine River  some 233 miles (375 km) upstream from the river’s mouth on the  English Channel  (La Manche), by about 7600  BCE . The modern city has spread from the island (the Île de la Cité) and far beyond both banks of the Seine. Paris occupies a central position in the rich agricultural region known as the  Paris Basin , and it  constitutes  one of eight  départements  of the  Île-de-France  administrative region. It is by far the country’s most important centre of commerce and  culture . Area city, 41 square miles (105 square km);   metropolitan area , 890 square miles (2,300 square km). Pop. (2020 est.) city, 2,145,906; (2020 est.) urban agglomeration, 10,858,874.

21. 07. Taj Mahal-India

22.   Taj Mahal  is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan (r. 1628–1658) to house the tomb of his favourite wife,   Mumtaz Mahal ; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall. Construction of the mausoleum was essentially completed in 1643, but work continued on other phases of the project for another 10 years. The Taj Mahal complex is believed to have been completed in its entirety in 1653 at a cost estimated at the time to be around  ₹ 32 million, which in 2020 would be approximately ₹70 billion (about US $1 billion). The construction project employed some 20,000 artisans under the guidance of a board of architects led by Ustad Ahmad Lahori, the emperor’s court architect. Various types of symbolism have been employed in the Taj to reflect natural beauty and divinity.

23. 08. Great Wall Of China

24. The Great Wall of China is an ancient series of walls and fortifications, totaling more than 13,000 miles in length, located in northern China. Perhaps the most recognizable symbol of China and its long and vivid history, the Great Wall was originally conceived by Emperor Qin Shi Huang in the third century B.C. as a means of preventing incursions from barbarian nomads. The best-known and best-preserved section of the Great Wall was built in the 14th through 17th centuries A.D., during the Ming dynasty. Though the Great Wall never effectively prevented invaders from entering China, it came to function as a powerful symbol of Chinese civilization’s enduring strength.

25. 09. Pyramids Of Giza

26. The last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, the great pyramids of Giza, are perhaps the most famous and discussed structures in history. These massive monuments were unsurpassed in height for thousands of years after their construction and continue to amaze and enthrall us with their overwhelming mass and seemingly impossible perfection. Their exacting orientation and mind-boggling construction has elicited many theories about their origins, including unsupported suggestions that they had extra-terrestrial impetus. However, by examining the  several hundred years prior  to their emergence on the Giza plateau, it becomes clear that these incredible structures were the result of many experiments, some more successful than others, and represent an apogee in line with the development of the royal mortuary complex.

27. 10.Brazil-Amazon River

28. Amazon River, Portuguese Rio Amazonas, Spanish Río Amazonas, also called Río Marañón and Rio Solimões, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin. The total length of the river—as measured from the headwaters of the Ucayali-Apurímac river system in southern Peru—is at least 4,000 miles (6,400 km), which makes it slightly shorter than the Nile River but still the equivalent of the distance from New York City to Rome. Its westernmost source is high in the Andes Mountains, within 100 miles (160 km) of the Pacific Ocean, and its mouth is in the Atlantic Ocean, on the northeastern coast of Brazil. However, both the length of the Amazon and its ultimate source have been subjects of debate since the mid-20th century, and there are those who claim that the Amazon is actually longer than the Nile.

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