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colossal statue
Close ✕Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro
A 30 m concrete and soapstone figure, 38 m including its pedestal, standing on the summit of Corcovado above Rio de Janeiro.
-23.0, -43.2 · exact · 1922–1931 CE (construction) – present
On the world
- A place in: Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World · 12 places
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Connections
- comparable in form to Colossus of Rhodes — Both are colossal free-standing figures of a divine subject placed above a harbour approach, at 30 m and a reported seventy cubits respectively.
- elected by New7Wonders Foundation — Declared one of the New7Wonders at Lisbon on 7 July 2007.
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