article_snippet: the city of Shiraz was built on a half-artificial, half-natural terrace where a palace complex inspired by Mesopotamian models was developed by cutting into the rocky mountainside.
article_snippet: Ciudad Perdida, located high in Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains, has recently been dubbed 'the new Machu Picchu' Ciudad Perdida, Colombia .
article_snippet: High in Colombia's Sierra Nevada mountains, the country's Lost City has recently been dubbed 'the new Machu Picchu,' after being first discovered in the 1970s.
article_snippet: Made up of 169 terraces, which are carved into the mountains, Ciudad Perdida, or Teyuna as Teyuna known by the local tribes, also boasts early tiled roads and several small plazas.