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Christ the Redeemer stands on the peak of Corcovado Mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park ignoring the Brazilian Capital, Rio de Janeiro. The statue of Jesus Christ is located at the top of 700m of the Corcovado Mountain. This statue of Jesus Christ, embracing arms as if it is embracing all humanity is the most prominent milestone in Brazil. A sign of Christianity, the statue has become an icon for Rio and Brazil. The 38m tall statuette, the tallest in the world is made of metal, unbreakable material and soapstone weighs 635 tones. Styled by Brazilian builder Heitor de Silva Costa and created by French sculptor Paul Landowski, it is one of the world's well known structures. It took five years to create and instated on October 12, 1931. It is now recognized as the recent Seven Wonders of the World.

In the era of 1850's, a catholic pastor, Pedro Maria Boss, suggested to build a statue of Jesus Christ on the peak of the Corcovado Mountain. The monetary assistance was requested from the Princess of Isabel to make a great statue of Lord Jesus Christ which was considered as a holy symbol and is freshly accepted as a piece of new seven wonders of the world. Initially this idea was avoided and nobody bothered to build this great religious structure, but after ward in 1921, the figurine was ultimately created by the Catholic Circle of Rio, when the true desire and proposal for a great milestone and a religious memorial was seriously considered.

Then was the problem of finances, as to who will finance for this huge traditional and religious sculpture and to solve this problem as well to gain a great publicity a group of citizens organized an occasion for about seven days through which a large sum of donation was collected hugely from the Brazilian Catholics. The individuals were also requested to sign if they were in support of creating the huge figurine of Jesus. Along with funds and signatures, there were suggestions pouring in for the style of the statue of Jesus Christ, a few suggested that there should be a cross of Christ along with Jesus Christ's statuette, others had a notion to build an statue of Jesus holing the earth in his safe hands, all the suggestions were keenly studied on, but finally a statue of Jesus Christ with open arms was decided. With all the hardships the statue was finally built on the tip of 700m high Corcovado Mountain and now is recognized as one of the seven wonders of the world.

You can easily get to see this amazing wonder of the world by just flying to the Brazilian capital, Rio de Janeiro and reserve a hotel well ahead of time as Rio is a demanding town. Public transports are the best means of travel to Corcovado Mountain. The rest of the climb up to the idol can be done by elevators, escalators or by climbing up 222 steps! Enjoy your vacation by flying down to Brazil and viewing the most amazing wonder of the world-Christ The Redeemer.