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The Statue Was Built In France
The Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca jungle may look like it was constructed there, but it actually wasn’t. The statue’s designer, Heitor da Silva Costa, is a Brazilian engineer. The French artist Paul Landowski crafted the statue. The statue, made in sections and brought to Brazil, was his creation. When they arrived in Brazil, they were assembled by a man named Heitor da Silva Costa, a Brazilian engineer, and a man named Albert Caquot, a French engineer.
