The voting for the new 7 World Wonders has been closed. Tonight in Lisbon, Portugal the results will be revealed in the official New7Wonders Declaration Ceremony. Early June the 10 most popular wonders included the Taj Mahal and Christ Redeemer, along with the Colosseum in Rome, the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, Peru's Machu Picchu, Petra in Jordan, and the statues of Easter Island.
The New 7 Wonders campaign received over 90 million votes. This amazingly successful campaign was launched in 2000 by Swiss film producer, author and aviator Bernard Weber.The 7 World Wonders show will include award-presentation appearances by Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Bipasha Basu, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neil Armstrong and Bertrand Piccard, and also will feature performances by Chaka Khan, Jennifer Lopez, Jose Carreras, Alessandro Safina, Joaquín Cortés, and Dulce Pontes, among others.
The event will take place at Portugal's largest venue, the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon. The international event will start at 21:30 (9:30 p.m.) local time, ending at 23 (11 p.m.). There will be live video stream of the event on the New 7 Wonders site.
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