Place | Famous For | |||
AUROVILLE | UNESCO sponsored world's first international town near Pondichery in Tamil Nadu named after Aurobindo Ghose. The town with an area of 15sq. miles and a population of 50,000 will be a self-supporting township having gour zones, viz., cultural, industrial, residential and international. It was inaugurated on February 28,1963. | |||
ABU SIMBAL (U.S.A.) | A monument executed by UNSCO in Egypt, the famous temple at Nybia (Egypt) was facing submergence as result of the construction of Aswan Dam. UNSCO has reconstructed it at a cost of 36 million dollars and was inaugurated on 12th Sept. 1968. | |||
ADAM'S BRIDGE | Sand and rock bridge between Sri Lanka and India. Legent has is that was constructed by Lord Rama when he was in invade Lanka of Ravana. | |||
ALICE SPRINGS (Australia) | Spring with medicinal properties. | |||
BIG BEN | Name given to the big clock of the British Parliament building. | |||
BILLING'S GATE | London fish market. As a term, it means foul language. | |||
DODOMA | This is going to be the new capital of Tanzania in place of Dar-es-Salam. | |||
EIFFEL TOWER | 985 feet high tower in Paris build by Gustav Effel in 1887-89 at a cost of 2,00,000 | |||
ELBA | An isolated island in the Meduterranean Sea, where Napoleon was exiled in 1841. | |||
ELLORA | Famous for rock-pruned Kailash Temple (Aurangabad) in Maharashtra. An exquisite piece of Dravidian art. Ellora cave temples, 34 in number, present a blend of caves representing Buddhism and Jainism constructed in 8th century A.D. | |||
ELYSEE PALACE | Official residence of the President of France. It was the venue of Paris Peace parleys on Vietnam. | |||
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING (U.S.A) | World's one of the loftiest structures. It has 103 storeys and a height of 1200 feet. | |||
ESCURIAL | One of the longest palaces in Spain. |
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