Trips to Mendoza Province are everyday more popular.
The province was selected from the 1,200 places on the planet chosen by New7Wonders.
Spruce to welcome travelers seeking the repair on their land, have a striking natural beauty, to be irrigated ditches that bring life to their groves and vineyards offer the world straight through effort, Mendoza has allowed aspire to be one of seven great cities of the world.
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This was confirmed yesterday after the company announced international launch New7Wonders online voting will seek to choose the most attractive places on the planet in a process that began today and will end in 2013 defined.
Those who live here, who were once on vacation and took that picture so nice to the mountains in the background, those who yearn to return to dip their toes into the waters of the river, those who live in some remote place and think of the Harvest this unique festival, those who seek it as a step and fell in love with their seats …
Everyone is invited to pay homage with just one click on the website “New7Wonders”.
It is to compete with the 1,200 selected cities (from 220 countries including Argentina) for this site signifies to “the land of sun and good wine,” a big challenge. And according to the timetable set for the election, time is limited, since this first phase will run until March 7.
From that instance will be classified 300 cities to be selected by voters in the top 77. By next year, you will know what are the 28 most “wonderful” in the world and from then on will make its way into the final, which will leave the podium to the seven most appreciated.
To reach some of these instances, the news for the province is more than encouraging, since the site officer in charge of the event, is nothing less than the same one that held the election of the new seven wonders of the world.
Argentina has a recent history in this sense, since last November, Niagara Falls (Misiones) were ranked among the greatest natural beauties on the planet.
Knowledgeable about the application, from the Government welcomed the opportunity and began designing a campaign to seek accession.
“We will undertake a campaign through social networks and in the media, inviting Mendoza and all those who want to vote”, said Minister of Tourism, Javier Espina and clarified that the dissemination of the campaign is still in a initial stage due to recent news.
The challenge to stand out, not less, as Mendoza not only compete with cities on five continents, but which they will be face to face with Cordoba, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires and San Juan to its neighbor.
“Of course it’s an honor to be among the 1,200 Mendoza preset cities. This accounts for its weight on the world map,” said Espina who also mentioned the mountains, lakes and events related to wine tourism (including The National Harvest Festival), as the main local attributes that may have tempted New7Wonders to put your eyes on these lands.
This is not the first time that transcends the province at the national and international for a prize. Without going any further, last year National Geographic magazine chose the National Harvest Festival as the second most important festival worldwide.
In 2010 the readers of the prestigious U.S. magazine “Travel + Leisure”, voted among the ten most attractive destinations in Latin America. As long as a year earlier, the same magazine placed it among the “fifty places in the world ever known must stop.”
Another antecedent of the same nature dates back to 2008, the year the National Geographic Traveler published its annual rating of tourist destinations, among which 109 were selected. Of these, the province was at number ten.
