Panoramic photo by
Udo D
Standing at the base of the CN Tower and the Rogers Centre.
The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a
communications and observation tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft)
tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under
construction in 1975, becoming the tallest free-standing structure on
land in the world. On September 12, 2007, after holding the record for
31 years, the CN Tower was surpassed in height by the
still-under-construction Burj Dubai. It remains the tallest
free-standing structure in the Americas, the signature icon of Toronto's
skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million
international visitors annually.
CN originally referred to Canadian National, the railway company that
built the tower. Following the railway's decision to divest non-core
freight railway assets, prior to the company's privatization in 1995 it
transferred the tower to the Canada Lands Company, a federal Crown
corporation responsible for real estate development. Since local
residents wished to retain the name CN Tower, the abbreviation is now
said to expand to Canada's National Tower rather than the original
Canadian National Tower; however, neither of these names are commonly
used.
In 1995, the CN Tower was declared one of the modern Seven Wonders of
the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It also belongs
to the World Federation of Great Towers.
Rogers Centre, formerly known as SkyDome, is a multi-purpose stadium
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated next to the CN Tower near the
shores of Lake Ontario. Originally opened in 1989, it is home to the
American League's Toronto Blue Jays, the Canadian Football League's
Toronto Argonauts, the site of the annual International Bowl American
college football bowl game, and as of 2008, the National Football
League's Buffalo Bills' second playing venue in the Bills Toronto
Series. While it is primarily a sports venue, it also hosts other
large-scale events such as conventions, trade fairs, concerts, funfairs,
and monster truck shows. The stadium was renamed "Rogers Centre"
following the purchase of the stadium by Rogers Communications in 2005.
The venue was noted for being the first stadium to have a
fully-retractable motorized roof, as well as for the 348-room hotel
attached to it, with 70 rooms overlooking the field. It is also the most
recent North American major-league stadium built to accommodate both
football as well as baseball, although some of the newer baseball parks
have been known to host the occasional college football game (AT&T
Park, Chase Field, and Safeco Field, to name a few).http://www.360cities.net/image/cn-tower-rogers-centre#101.88,-84.61,54.7
CN Tower and Rogers Centre in Toronto
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