Johannesburg Webcam, Soccer City World Cup 2010 Stadium Web

Johannesburg city skyline, Soccer City World Cup stadium

Soccer City, formerly known as the FNB Stadium, is a stadium located in the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located next to the South African Football Association headquarters (SAFA House) where both the FIFA offices and the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup are housed.

A football-specific stadium, Soccer City is currently the largest stadium in Africa with a capacity of 94,700. Most of the largest football events in South Africa are played at Soccer City and the venue is better suited to these events than the Ellis Park Stadium, where the final for the Rugby World Cup in 1995 was held. Soweto and the National Exhibition Centre in Nasrec are nearby.

It was the site of Nelson Mandela's first speech in Johannesburg after his release from prison. It was also the site of Chris Hani's funeral.

World Cup Webcams

Our range of webcam views from around the football stadiums and cities of South Africa are proving especially popular during the FIFA World Cup tournament.

Most viewed webcams over the first 5 days of the tournament have been:

Green Point Cape Town soccer stadium, venue for World Cup 2010 South Africa

Johannesburg city skyline, Soccer City World Cup stadium

Peter Mokaba Complex, South Africa World Cup 2010 football stadium

Costa Blanca Webcams

View of the Andalucia hills, Marbella and Santa Clara golf course

Marbella is a city in Andalusia, Spain, by the Mediterranean, situated in the province of Málaga, beneath La Concha. In 2000 the city had 98,823 inhabitants, in 2004, 116,234, in 2010 circa 135,000.

Marbella and the nearby Puerto Banús are important beach resorts of the Costa del Sol. The town is famous for being a playground for the rich and famous. Marbella is famed as an exclusive destination for wealthy tourists from Northern Europe, as well as for the well-heeled from the UK, Ireland and Germany.

The urban district of Alcoi, the industrial cradle of the Region of Valencia

Alcoy (in Spanish) or Alcoi (in Valencian) is a city and municipality located in the province of Alicante, Spain. The Serpis river crosses the municipal term of Alcoy

The first traces of human presence in the area date to c. 60,000 years ago, when Neandertal hunters settled here. A site with rock paintings, dating to c. 10,000/6,500 years ago, has been discovered near la Sarga. From around the mid-3rd millennium BC people started to move from the caves to the plain where cereals were grown, while mountain fortifications were erected (Mola alta de Serelles, Más del Corral, Más de Menente, el Puig).

Alicante Old Town, streets leading to the Cathedral

Alacant or Alicante is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of the Alacantí, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is also a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city of Alicante proper was 334,757, estimated as of 2009 ranking as the second-largest Valencian city. Including nearby municipalities, Alicante conurbation was populated by 458,843 residents. Population of the metropolitan area (including Elche and satellite towns) was 795,034 as of 2009[update] estimates, ranking as the eighth-largest metropolitan area of Spain.

The Best Beaches in the World

We now have featured a very extensive range of some of the best live beach views in the world, with webcams pointing at some of the most glorious golden sands and dramatic stretches of coastline in the world.

A few of our favourites (from Australia these ones - will return later with some from other parts of the world, we have many in Europe and Asia too)

Bondi Beach, NSW

Broome's famous surf ocean beach in Western Australia

View of the beach at Byron Bay, New South Wales

North Steyne Surf Beach at Manly

Famous Landmark Webcams

Ever fancied visiting some of the most famous landmarks on the planet but don't have the time, money or inclination to actually physically get there in person?

Well, just about the next best thing is to take in a live webcam view of the spots you would love to visit - with many webcams now streaming live it can actually seem like you are there - watch the local people going about their daily lives, check out the weather and generally just enjoy a bot of good old people watching!

Just some of the famous worldwide landmarks featured on My World Webcams are:

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Eiffel Tower in Paris

The Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt

England Gathers to Watch the World Cup

England expects as the world cup finally gets underway for the 3 lions, and in homes, pubs and clubs across the country people are gathering to watch England's first game of the tournament against the United States.

Some of the more popular venues are the big screens popping up across the country, allowing big crowds to gather and enjoy the summer sunshine while watching the match in plenty of like minded company.

My World Webcams has webcams on a few of these locations, including:

Millenium Square in Leeds city centre

London's very busy Trafalgar Square

FIFA World Cup 2010 Webcams - live views from South Africa

A number of live views from cities and stadiums across South Africa now featured in conjunction with the ongoing world cup tournament.

Some fantastic games in store today, with England getting their campaign underway against the USA, and a great match expected as Maradona's Argentina meet the Nigeria Super Eagles.

South Africa World Cup Webcams

My World Webcams on the BBC!

On the day the World Cup starts, we're delighted to find our webcam listing from Johannesburg being featured on the BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright in the Afternoon Webcam of the Day section on the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/steve-wright-in-the-afternoon/webcam-of-the-day/

World Cup Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony will be held at the newly-renovated Orlando Stadium, Johannesburg at 8:00 p.m. local time (GMT+2). The concert will feature musical performances by most popular African artists that include queen of pop Shakira. Shakira is expected to sing the official song of the World Cup 2010 — “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)”.

The video is of the song “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” is currently available on the web. The video also features Portugal’s star Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina’s Lionel Messi.

Besides Shakira, a long list of celebrities including past and present football legends will be present at the auspicious occasion.

Football fever has started spreading among the fans. The entire world is looking forward to the World Cup Opening Ceremony 2010, so as I. Friends, please share your ideas about World Cup 2010.

Johannesburg city skyline and World Cup stadium

World Cup Webcams

As the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup gets underway in South Africa, featuring countries and fans from all over the world, we have a special feature on South African views, from the major cities and stadiums across the country - see our South Africa webcams page for more details.

Top live web cam views include:

Green Point Cape Town soccer stadium, venue for the opening World Cup game

View of Table Mountain from across Cape Town city

Johannesburg city skyline, and the Soccer City World Cup stadium

New Madrid Webcam

Madrid city skyline, Chamartín railway station, and Torre Caja de Madrid

Torre Caja Madrid (Spanish: Caja Madrid Tower) is a skyscraper located in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, Spain. With a height of 250 m (820 ft) and 45 floors, it is the tallest of the four buildings in the Cuatro Torres Business Area complex, surpassing Torre de Cristal by less than a metre.

Designed by Lord Foster, it was first known as Torre Repsol and would have served as headquarters for Repsol YPF oil and gas company. During the construction of the tower, Repsol decided to change the location of its future headquarters and the financial institution Caja Madrid purchased the building for €815 million in August 2007. Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA) (Spanish for Four Towers Business Area) is a business park located in the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid (Spain), on the former Ciudad Deportiva of Real Madrid.

Webcam at Verona Opera House

Verona Arena, Roman Amphitheatre in Italy's Veneto region

The Verona Arena (Arena di Verona) is a Roman amphitheatre in Verona, Italy, which is internationally famous for the large-scale opera performances given there. It is one of the best preserved ancient structures of its kind.

The building itself was built in AD 30 on a site which was then beyond the city walls. The ludi (shows and games) staged there were so famous that spectators came from many other places, often far away, to witness them. The amphitheatre could host more than 30,000 spectators in ancient times.

Piazza San Marco, Venice Webcam

Piazza San Marco, also known as St Mark's Square, in central Venice

Piazza San Marco (often known in English as Saint Mark's Square), is the principal square of Venice, Italy.

A remark often attributed to Napoleon (but perhaps more correctly to Alfred de Musset) calls the Piazza San Marco "The drawing room of Europe". It is one of the few great urban spaces in a Europe where human voices prevail over the sounds of motorized traffic, which is confined to Venice's waterways. It is the only urban space called a piazza in Venice; the others, regardless of size, are called campi.

As the central landmark and gathering place for Venice, Piazza San Marco is extremely popular with tourists, photographers, and pigeons.

New Webcam - Pensacola Beach, Florida

Pensacola Beach, Santa Rosa Island on Florida's Emerald Coast

Pensacola Beach is an unincorporated community located on Santa Rosa Island, a barrier island, in Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is situated south of Pensacola, connected via bridges spanning to the Fairpoint Peninsula and then to the island, on the Gulf of Mexico. As of the 2000 census, the community had a total population of 2,738.

Pensacola Beach occupies land bound by a 1947 deed from the United States Department of Interior that it be administered in the public interest by the county or leased, but never "disposed"; its businesses and residents are thus long-term leaseholders and not property owners

New Webcams in Asia

A middle eastern flavour to today's latest webcam updates, with 2 new webcams in Israel added, as well as a city view from Beirut in the Lebanon

Loads more great webcam views are scheduled to be uploaded this week, so keep visiting to see them all as they appear.

Finding the Best Beach Holidays in the World

Everyone loves to look at some great live beach views , especially if you’re planning a holiday, or even still deciding where you would like to go. There’s a number of ways you check out which beaches are the best out there – once you’ve decided on a short list you can hit the computer and start Googling away to look for images and reviews of the places you’re considering going to. You can guarantee there’ll be a wide range of pictures and descriptions out there.

For those who are more up to date with some of the more recent high-tech technological developments you might even download yourself a copy of Google Earth and go for a live satellite view of the places you have under consideration. Or how about taking to the streets with Google’s street view? It may not get you right onto the beach itself, but you can get pretty close with many promenades and piers featured, getting you right up to the action in some cases.

So you may come up with a list of definite maybes – there’ll almost certainly be some Australian beaches in there, Bondi, Manly or Palm Beach perhaps, Florida is likely to feature, with Miami and Clearwater among the popular names, or in Europe you might like the look of Paphos in Cyprus, the Greek Islands of Naxos or Crete, or any number of golden sand stretches on the Algarve in Portugal. In Africa, there are some lovely stretches in Kenya and Egypt, and who can leave out the white sands and glamour of the Caribbean. But how do you know the beach you’ve found will match up to the pictures and satellite images in real life?

One of the best ways is to find a webcam, where you can get an actual live view of the places you’re considering. A recently launched world webcam directory , myworldwebcams.com features live beach scenes form dozens of the most well known and popular beaches all around the world, as long as a fair few you might not have heard of – but aren’t the hidden gems often the best? The beauty of the web cam view is it allows you to check out a place in live format, at different times of the day and year to see exactly what it’s like, how busy it gets and whether it’s the kind of place you would like to spend your holiday. So next time you’re looking for your perfect beach holiday, make sure you take a little time out to use My World Webcams.

North East England Webcams

A range of new web cam listings uploaded today, focusing on the North East region of England, including 2 different views of the River Tyne Quayside area and Gateshead Millenium Bridge, one from Northumbria University and a fabulous panoramic view of Durham Cathedral.

Technorati Listing

The My World Webcams blog is now featured on www.technorati.com blog hub, reference D8JAMK8XV86W

Webcams Down Under

An antipodean flavour has come to My World Webcams in recent times, with a total of 15 webcams in Australia now uploaded as well as 6 webcam views from New Zealand.

Among our favourites are the web cam view of Manly Beach in Sydney, and also the Palm Beach webcam, scene of Aussie soap opera Home and Away.

New USA Web Cam Live Views

A selection of views from the eastern areas of the North American continent uploaded today - 2 in South Carolina, a new view over Atlanta in Georgia and 3 different live views of New Oreleans in Louisiana