15 cool things about national monuments

         15 cool things about national monuments

Monuments are built all over the world to honor history. Many are parts of national parks or sites and are cared for by governments. Others are protected by an organization called the united nations. Checks out some of the world's most amazing monuments.

1. The National Mall, a national park in Washington, D.C, with several national monuments has 41 KM of sidewalks. National Mall is home to iconic monuments including the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument.

2. The walls of Irelands Blarney castle are 18 feet thick in some parts. The castle originally dates from before 1200 and was destroyed and rebuilt in 1446 by Cormac Laidir MacCarthy.

3. Construction of Spain's Sagrada Familia a church started in 1882 probably won't be done until at least 2026. The Basílica de la Sagrada Família, also known as the Sagrada Família, is a large unfinished Roman Catholic minor basilica in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

4. Over 300 hammers were used to build the Statue of Liberty in New York City. The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York.

5. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis Missouri has 1076 steps on each side. The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot monument. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch, the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere.

6. It took about 20,000 workers to construct India's Taj Mahal, a17th-century tomb. Taj Mahal. An immense mausoleum of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, the Taj Mahal is the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.

7. Kizhi Pogost, a set of 18th-century churches in northwest Russia, was built without a nail. Kizhi is an island near the geometrical center of the Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia.

8. In 1919 a pilot flew a plane under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France to mark the end of world war 1. The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the center of Place Charles de Gaulle.

9. The cables used on the golden gate bridge in San Francisco California could circle the earth three times. The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

10. England's Palace of Westminster has over 1,100 rooms. The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

11. Japan's Itsukushima shrine seems to float on water when the tide floods the ground on which it stands. Itsukushima Shrine is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima, best known for its "floating" torii gate. It is in the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.

12. the Washington Monument in Washington, dc, is as tall as 794 pencils standing end to end. The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States.

13. In Rome Italy, some $3,000 worth of coins are thrown in the trevi fountain each day. The Trevi Fountain is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini and several others.

14. One monument built in Quito Ecuador to show the Ecuador location was placed hundreds of feet below the correct spot.

15. the Pha that Luang monument Laos was once topped with sheets of gold.