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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall is a defensive wall made ​​of stones and soil that became the bastion of Roman Britain. Wall built in the Age of the Roman Empire in 122 ad It stretches from the North Sea to the Irish Sea and at the time, and the wall is a boundary of the Roman Empire. The length of this wall is expected to reach 117 km (from segedunum, wallsend, river tyne to the Solway Firth coast), while the wide reach 6 meters high and 3.5 meters.

Now Hadrian's Wall has become the most popular tourist attraction in the UK. And most of the walls can still be encountered, especially the mid-section.
Because the wall is one of the most famous and historic in the world, then the wall was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.


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Western Wall or Wailing Wall

Western Wall or Wailing Wall is a place that has a variety of unique history that are considered important and holy by both Jews and Muslims. Its history is for the Muslims of this wall is part of the base and the Aqsa Mosque Omar Mosque (Arabic: As-قبة الصخرة Qubbat Sakhrah), and believed to be the departure gate where the Prophet Muhammad from Jerusalem to heaven (Ascension) by riding Buraq. In addition to the place where Prophet Muhammad maintains his own horses.
As for Jews, this wall is the wall to lament the destruction of the Jewish Synagogue. Jews do not believe that this wall were destroyed because that's where dwells "Shekhinah" (divine presence). Thus, praying there was tantamount to pray to the Lord.
So the original wall has a length of about 485 meters, and now the rest is just 60 meters to the world is regarded as one of the walls of the most historic and influential ever.



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Kremlin Walls

Kremlin Walls is one of the walls are very famous and legendary in the world. This wall is a defensive wall that surrounds the Moscow Kremlin.
Red brick wall which had stood for 700 years. The length of this wall at 1.4 miles with a wall thickness varying between 3.5 to 6.5 meters. And in this wall there is the mausoleum where the body resides the highest Russian leaders like Stalin and Brezhnev.
And now this wall belong to one of the most historic walls that ever existed.


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