Famous Echoes
- Gol Gumbaz of Bijapur, India: Any whisper, clap or sound gets echoed repeatedly.
- The Golkonda Fort of Hyderabad, India
- The Echo Wall at the Temple of Heaven, Beijing, China
- The Whispering Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
- Echo Point, the Three Sisters, Katoomba, Australia
- The Temple of Kukulcan ("El Castillo"), Chichen Itza, Mexico
- The Baptistry of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
- The echo near Milan visited by Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad
- The echo in Chinon which is used in a traditional local rhyme.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or echoes:
“Those famous men of old, the Ogres—
They had long beards and stinking arm-pits,
They were wide-mouthed, long-yarded and great-bellied
Yet not of taller stature, Sirs, than you.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“Good and evil are repaid in kind, just as shadows follow bodies, and echoes follow sounds.”
—Chinese proverb.