Christ the Redeemer
This statue of Jesus
stands some 38 meters tall, atop the Corcovado mountain overlooking Rio de
Janeiro. Designed by Brazilian Heitor da Silva Costa and created by French
sculptor Paul Landowski, it is one of the world’s best-known monuments. The
statue took five years to construct and was inaugurated on October 12, 1931. It
has become a symbol of the city and of the warmth of the Brazilian people, who
receive visitors with open arms.
(Portuguese: Cristo Redentor, standard Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈkɾistu χedẽˈtoɾ], local dialect: [ˈkɾiʃtu ɦedẽˈtoɦ]) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
created by Polish-French sculptor Paul Landowski and built by the Brazilian engineer Heitor
da Silva Costa, in collaboration with the French engineer Albert Caquot. The
face was created by the Romanianartist Gheorghe Leonida. The
statue is 30 metres (98 ft) tall, not including its 8-metre (26 ft) pedestal, and
its arms stretch 28 metres (92 ft) wide.[1][2]
The
statue weighs 635 metric tons (625 long,
700 short
tons), and is located at the peak of the 700-metre
(2,300 ft) Corcovadomountain
in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of
Rio. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a
cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and is listed as one of the
New Seven Wonders of the World.[3] It is made ofreinforced concrete and soapstone,
and was constructed between 1922 and 1931.[4][5][6]
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