7 Wonders of The World pt2
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- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's Christ the Redeemer statue is the third wonder of the world. It became a symbol of Christianity and also an icon of Rio in Brazil. Sitting on top Mount Corcovado, this statue is situated within the city limits of Tijuca Forest National Park, a rainforest.
- Brazil and France worked together to create this statue, which took nine years to complete. It was constructed by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, sculpted by Polish-French artist Paul Landowski, and had a face made by Romanian artist Gheorghe Leonida.
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- For many years, reaching to the statue from the train station required climbing around 200 steps. However in 2003, officials installed a series of escalators and elevators to make the journey easier.
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- Machu Picchu is the fourth wonder of the world. It is a pre-Columbian Inca site from the fifteenth century. Situated 80 miles northwest of Cusco, on a mountain crest above the Urubamba Valley in Peru, it is 2,430 meters above sea level.
- According to the majority of archaeologists, Machu Picchu was built as an estate for Pachacuti, the Inca emperor who ruled from 1438 to 1472. Often called the "Lost City of the Incas," it is perhaps the most well-known symbol of the Inca world.
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- Bingham theorised that Machu Picchu served as a kind of convent where the selected females from the Inca realm got trained to serve for the Inca ruler and his coterie. Over a hundred skeletons have been discovered at the site, and it is estimated that around 75 percent of them were female.
- Everyone is welcome to visit the small Catholic church located at the statue's base. Over 2 million people visit the well known site each year, and the majority of them take the Corcovado train, a centenarian eco-friendly electric train that travels through the forest to reach the statue.
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