INFORMATION!!
New7Wonders
of the World (2000–2007) was an initiative started in 2000 as a
Millennium project to choose Wonders of the World from a selection of
200 existing monuments .The popularity poll was led by Canadian-Swiss
Bernard Weber and organized by the New7Wonders Foundation based in
Zurich , Switzerland , with winners announced on 7 July 2007 in Lisbon
. The New7Wonders of the World include Chichen Itza , Christ Redeemer ,
Great Wall of China , Machu Picchu , Petra , Taj Mahal and Colosseum .
The New7Wonders Foundation claimed that more than 100 million votes
were cast through the Internet or by telephone . The voting via
Internet was limited to one vote for seven monuments per
person/identity , via telephone multiple voting was possible , so the
poll was considered not scientific . According to John Zogby , founder
and current President/CEO of the Utica , New York-based polling
organization Zogby International , New7Wonders Foundation drove "the
largest poll on record" .
After supporting the New7Wonders Foundation at the beginning of the
campaign , by providing advice on nominee selection , the United
Nations Educational , Scientific , and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
by its by laws having to record all and give equal status to the world
heritage sites distanced itself from the undertaking in 2001 and again
in 2007 .