Old-fashioned Waterloo panoroma still entertains

AP Worldstream | August 13, 2009| | Copyright

It's hard to believe anyone would choose the crackle of distant cannon fire and a very dated 360-degree wall painting over in-your-face kinetic effects of movies and theme parks.

But annually more than 200,000 people visit the Waterloo Panorama for the thrill of seeing a vast, dilapidated, century-old painting showing Napoleon's last stand.

Carole Fonteneau of St. Malo, France, emerged from the place recently fairly excited.

"It's quite real with sounds," she said. "My little boy is impressed, too. But it's still hard to feel how it was to be in such a ...

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