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The
Christ the Redeemer Statue is among the
21 finalist monuments competing to be elected
one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, as
announced by the New 7 Wonders Foundation
an organization based in Zurich, Switzerland.
The
statue's history began in the 1500's and
about a hundred years later, the mountain
was re-named 'Corcovado', after its characteristic
profile, In 1924, Brazil's Dom Pedro personally
led the first official expedition to the
top of Corcovado Mountain, and it soon resulted
in wider publis access to the top. story
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