Revealed: The Most Expensive Landmarks In The World

From the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China, landmarks across the world are huge tourist attractions. But have you ever wondered how much they cost to build? Merchant Cash Advance has taken a seed list of landmarks in the world and researched how much they cost to build, and the results are surprising!

Key points of interest:

• The most expensive landmark is St Peter’s Basilica in Italy, costing a whopping $7 billion to build
• The second most expensive is the Taj Mahal in India cost $1 billion to build
• The Great Wall of China took over 1800 years to build costing $95 million
• France’s Eiffel Tower cost $1.5 million to build and is 324m in height.

The full data can be found here.

The Most Expensive Landmarks To Build In The World:

Landmark	Location	Cost to build ($)
St Peter’s Basilica	Vatican City, Italy	7 billion
Taj Mahal	Angra, India	1 billion
Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	545 million
Colosseum	Rome, Italy	215 million
Great Wall of China	Beijing, China	95 million
Basilica of the Sagrada Familia	Barcelona, Spain	60 million
Empire State Building	New York, USA	41 million
Angkor Wat	Siem Reap, Cambodia	39 million
Golden Gate Bridge	San Francisco, California	35 million
Sydney Harbour Bridge	Sydney, Australia	4.2 million
Eiffel Tower	Paris, France	1.5 million
Corcovado, Cristo Redentor/ Christ the Redeemer	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	250 thousand

 

The most expensive landmark is St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Italy. Costing $7 billion to build, the famous landmark is a church. The building is 137 meters tall with the interior of St. Peter’s filled with many masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque art.

The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. The landmark was built in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife and cost a staggering $1 billion to complete.

The Great Wall of China is almost 3,000 years old and costs approximately $1 million to build. Taking over 1800 years to complete, The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection.

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. Named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, the landmark cost $1.5 million to build and is 324m in height.