“The Hanging Gardens of Babylonia”

This marvel was situated in the antique Babylonia, actual Iraqi territory, at the border of the Euphrates River, Asian continent.
About the sixth century before Christ, Nabucodonosor, who was the king of the city, constructed the “Hanging Gardens”. In year 539 B.C., the Persians conquered Babylonia and it caused its decay. When Alexander Magno visited the city, part of it was in ruins, and it definitive destruction was in 126 B. C., when Evemero conquered the city and set it on fire. Since then, there have been only ruins in this place.
Probably, the biggest characteristic is that the hanging gardens didn’t hang literally. The name comes from a wrong translation of a Greek word that really means to stand out as a balcony or a terrace. These gardens, which were full of vegetation and flowers today is a symbol of history and culture.
In the city everything is too level, too rectilinear: if we get high enough, we will see all the city at one sight.
Nabucodonosor’s wife, Amytis, who grew up in a luxurious place, was homesick, so the king decided to build a series of terraces planting some trees there. With just a short time, these overflowed with vegetation even described from outside the double walls of Babylonia. Nabucodonosor has been able to create a mount covered with exuberant vegetation.
We chose this marvel because we think it is really interesting, wonderful and amazing. It has a strange cause of creation, that astonished us. We think this theme is more interesting than the cities, and you can explain much more.