New seven wonders of the world: Machu Picchu

On Saturday, the new Seven Wonders of the World were announced in a star-studded ceremony attended by 50,000 people in Lisbon, Portugal. In the largest online poll ever, around 100 million internet users voted for their favourtite site from a shortlist of 21. Monuments that lost out included Stonehenge, the Acroplis in Athens and New York's Statue of Liberty. Here are the seven that did make the grade, along with the Great Pyramid at Giza, the only surviving structure from the original seven wonders of the ancient world, which received honorary status.

Machu Picchu

The famous 'Lost City of the Incas' situated high in the Peruvian Andes was built around 1450 at the height of the Inca empire, and was abandoned less than 100 years later. It was discovered by American Hiram Bingham in 1911 and is now one of the world's best known and most recognisable architectural sites.

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