USA-World Trade Center

This famous crest of skyscrapers piled up the ones on the others at the southern end of Manhattan, in front of the monumental bay of Hudson, represents the visual quintessence of New York: the image merges with the city and it made the turn of the world. The twin towers or World Trade Center are the highest skyscrapers of New York with 420 meters. World Trade Center, conceived by the Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki, built between 1966 and 1973, is a town of 43000 windows and 200000 m3 of glazed surfaces where work 50000 people and that cross each day a million individuals pulled by more than 200 elevators.

EGYPT-Sphinx

The Sphinx is in fact the representation of Chephren, illustrated like a lion with human head, charged to taking care on its capped necropolis with a nemes with the uraeus of the forehead, it is cut in the rock, living eternally and forever the face turned towards the East. Firing practices with the cannon carried out at the Mameluke time, combined with the effect of wind erosion would be at the origin of the destruction of the nose of the Sphinx.

Australia-Salzburg

The Prince-Archbishops who dreamed to make of their city the "Northern Rome" made their fortune on the salt layers. Today, the province rather owes its reputation to two other assets: the music and the mountain.

SRILANKA-Vihara

This photograph represents Isurumuniya Vihara, a troglodytic temple dating from the reign of Devanampiya Tissa (III 2nd century BC) which shelters many sculptures. Some are in their place of origin on the rock beside a square basin but the majority was transported in a small museum inside the temple. Most famous of the sculptures is that of the Lovers, prince Saliya and Asokamala if one believes the legend of it.

Sentosa island

Sentosa island is located in the South of the city. The tropical forests which covered formerly the essence of the island of Singapore are limited today to the center where we find vast natural reserves. However, almost all the fauna of the island (in particular tigers which, badly named by the first inhabitants, was worth to Singapore his nickname of " City of the lion ") was eliminated by the recent wave of development.