By area, the largest shopping mall in the world, Dubai Mall in Dubai, of course, is a center of excess. Far from being just a shopping center, it offers so many activities that few smaller towns have.
At 502,000 square meters (the size of about 50 football fields), the giant shopping centers dubai Dubai Mall, built in 2008. In 2011, it was the most visited building in the world, gathering as many as 54 million visitors in one year.
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The center is a popular meeting place and refuge for locals and foreigners, as Dubai is extremely hot in the summer. In addition to shopping in 1,200 stores of recognized domestic and foreign brands, they can admire a 50-meter long aquarium and walk through tunnel under the aquarium (underwater zoo), they go to cinema, on skating rink, which has a grandstand for 350 spectators, in gallery and in 7000 square meters SEGA Republic Theme Park with 150 games. Children are taken care of in the more than 7,000 square meter playroom KidZania, which mimics the operation of a normal city. In an area that imitates an Arab market, it hangs from the ceiling A 24 meter long dinosaur skeleton. It is also in the shopping center Rainforest Cafe, well metro and a waterfall four stories high. Many restaurants have outdoor terraces on the waterfront artificial lake with a tall water cannon accompanied by lighting effects. Could you ask for anything more from a shopping mall?
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