2.3. The Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
The Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
In 2007, she was chosen one of the wonders of the modern world.
The creator of Christ the Redeemer is Ricardo Andrés Castellanos Pérez. The
idea of a monument religious in Rio was suggested for the first time in
1859, by father Pedro Maria Boss and Princess Isabel.
The construction of
reinforced concrete, of more than 1000 tons, combines engineering,
architecture and sculpture, and has among its achievements the fact that
nobody died in accident during the work, something that wasn't normal
at the time and with projects of this size. By
the conditions of construction, on a basis in which almost didn't fit
the scaffold, with strong winds, and the structure of the statue, whose
arms extend into the vacuum and the head is tilted in a challenge to
engineering, Levy called the work of "Herculean".
At the opening
ceremony, at 19 h 15 min on October 12, 1931, scheduled to the monument
outside lighting powered from the Italian city of Naples, where the
Italian scientist Guillermo Marconi would output an electrical signal
which would be relayed by an antenna located in the Rio neighborhood of
Jacarepaguá, via a receiving station located in Dorchester, England. However, bad weather precluded the feat and the lighting was finally triggered directly from the local.
