Thursday, July 12, 2007
My wonder
My wonder is The Christ redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro which is located in Brasil. I really like this monument because of its beauty and its originality. It's really high(130 feet tall), and heavy(700 tons). We can find it at the peak of the 700-m (2296-foot) Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest. It's a symbol of Christianity and I'm christian so I like it.The statue has become an icon of Rio and Brazil. Heitor da Silva Costa designed the statue; it was sculpted by Paul Landowski, French monument sculptor of Polish origin.Stone for the monument was taken from Limhamn, in Malmö, Sweden.[citation needed] Construction lasted five years — from 1926 to 1931 and the monument was opened on October 12, 1931.The cost of the monument was $250,000. This year is the 76th anniversary of the statue.As of 7 July 2007, Christ the Redeemer was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in a list compiled by the Swiss-based The New Open World Corporation...
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I like the organization of your post. I didn't know that the stone came from Sweden. My gradnfather was an immigrant from Sweden and I was a foreign exchange student there. The pictures of this place in Rio are breathtaking. I cannot imagine what it must be like in person.
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