Christ the Redeemer

The name may seem unfamiliar to many but I'm sure that most people have seen the monument. The monument is very well known, but few people actually know much about the monument besides that it looks cool, which I can't argue because it is magnificent looking. Christ the Redeemer is located in Rio De Jainero, Brazil. It was built in 1921 by a group called the Catholic Circle of Rio. Christ the Redeemer stands at the very top of the Corcovado Mountain and is 112.2 feet tall without its base and 132.7 feet with the base. It was build out of reinforced concrete with a soapstone outer layer, because the soapstone can handle extreme weather conditions better.The statue was made as a monument to 100 years of Brazil's freedom from Portugal. In 1990, there was work done to restore some of the chips an cracks to the statue and few years ago,  there were some renovations to the mountain around the statue so that it was easier to assess the statue from the base.