Millennium Stadium - 1 of 7 UK attractions to be “Street Viewed”
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
On Tuesday 14th July Google and VisitBritain announced the winners of the online poll in which over 35,000 Brits voted for the first tourist attractions to be photographed by the Street View Trike. The 16 finalists, which included Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium and the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, had been previously narrowed from a starting field of over 10,000+ suggestions. The 6 winners, plus a special ‘wildcard’ location, will get a visit from the specially adapted Trike (an 18 stone mechanical masterpiece) over the summer, while the images it collects will appear in Street View on Google Maps later in the year.
The 6 winners are spread throughout the UK and demonstrate the public’s passion for their local landmarks; or maybe just their preference for landmarks that are easy to cycle around in a day.
THE WINNERS ARE: Stonehenge, the Angel of the North, Loch Ness, the Eden Project, Warwick Castle and Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium.
Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland was chosen by VisitBritain as the ‘wildcard’ and was selected because “it represents a hidden gem, off the beaten track”. The same could have also been said of Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, or am I being to parochial?
Once photographed and the 360 deg images ‘processed’ these tourist attractions will be put right onto Google’s virtual map, “tempting people at home and abroad to explore Britain’s historic and culture landmarks in an exciting new way” and hopefully encouraging a few more to actually visit in person.
So there you have it, and it’s now official, Cardiff has one of the UK’s TOP 6 tourist attractions by public vote!
In the interest of further public participation, if you spot Google’s Street View Trike in or around the Millennium Stadium over the coming weeks please let us know - we’d love to add this photo to our website.
