Stonehenge

[stewey]

Stonehenge did not make it as one of the 7 wonders of the modern world. Are you disappointed? Do you think it has the attributes of a 'wonder of the world'. I don't have an opinion because I don't live in the UK and have never seen it, except in photographs. But as a Britisher what do you think?

[jno]

it's a bit smaller than you might expect and compared with the careful stonecutting of Machu Picchu I don't think it makes it - its greatest interest is that it is very much older. But there's not enough there to make it a wonder of the world.

[fairkatrina]

Stonehenge is certainly impressive, but it's not the only Henge in the world, of indeed even the most elaborate. I don't think it ranks with the Pyramids etc

[bobtheturkey]

i always thought easter island to be far more impressive than Stonehenge

[stewey]

Some of our Australian friends are not too happy!:



By Peter Gosnell, City Reporter

July 09, 2007 12:00am

IS it any wonder that Sydneysiders are miffed?

In a slap to the face of our newly-listed World Heritage treasure, 400-year-old Mexican rubble Chichen Itza has been named ahead of the Sydney Opera House as one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.

[NikkiB]

Stonehenge was an amazing, mysterious feat for it's time. But not as impressive as the construction of the pyramids.

[stokeace]

stonehenge is just a few lumps of rock, more spiritual really than anything else..............

[ruby27]

I wasn't disappointed because there wasn't something British in the top 7, rather used to and proud not to excel is a British trait.
Stonehenge is an incredible human endeavour but not necessarily in the same league as the Pyramids, Taj Mahal and the GW or China. However I don't think that Christ the Redeemer should have got in either. But, then strangely enough I wasn't asked to be a judge.

[stewey]

I read that at the ceremony in Portugal, people actually jeered when the Statue of Liberty was mentioned.

[ruby27]

Stokeace
just a few lumps of rock!!!!!!
Only about 5 thousand years old, some of them orginating from Wales rather than Wiltshire. Like to see you move and then erect stones of 4- 50 tonnes plus without any modern technology. Modern day science still hasn't cracked how it was done.

[stokeace]

sorry ruby they are just a few lumps of rock to me lol

[joko]

sydney opera house!!??

yeah big wonder!

its just an unusually shaped building carefully designed by an architect - so what?

[dyli795]

Yea, OK previous posters, Stonehenge isn't as impressive as say Machu Pichu and certainly not the Pyramids, but remember there's supposed to be seven of them (no, not the Pyramids) We know and understand the reason why and wherefore of the Easter Island ediffices all truely amazing yes, but if I was to pick seven wonders of the world I'd have to include Stonehenge! Somewhere towards number seven admitedly, with the Pyramids at number one.
Sydney Operahouse? W.T.F. Where does that come into the seven wonders of the world? They could build a replica on the other side of the harbour if the fancy took them. Yea O.K. then I'll admit, we'd have the worlds most fabulous bookends or something.

[stewey]

What about the invisible bollards in front of Glasgow Airport: should not they have got a mention?

[stewey]

Hello, Legend and goodnight, Legend. I have to go and prepare for the 8th new wonder of the world: me getting up at 5am!

[jno]

Sydney Opera House is not a great technological achievement like the pyramids; we know how it was done. But nobody had done anything like it before and I don't really think they have since. It is one of the few modern buildings that people will actually travel to see they way they used to go to see cathedrals. It fits its site beautifully - its roofline echoes the sails on the harbour (or 'nuns in a scrum', someone said). I think it's more of a wonder than the statue of Christ in Rio.

[sp1814]

I've been to the Sydney Opera House, and honest - it's amazing to look at on the outside, but the inside is astonishingly minging.

Like some corporate 70s town hall. And the gift shop was over priced.

[Goodsoulette]

Its not modern though is it? Its on the seven wonders of the middle ages list which still seems a bit late but not exactly as magnificent as the ancient wonders. Although its till standing.

[joko]

mind you, stonehenge is just the left over scaffolding from a job, a building that never got built...