Posted on 06/17/2016 7:39:17 AM PDT by cll
A giant statue of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus was unveiled in Arecibo on the northern coast of Puerto Rico on Tuesday (June 14).
Russian-based sculptor, Zurab Tsereteli, created the 268 ft (81,68 meter) monument from 2,500 pieces of bronze and steel manufactured in Russia and some 2,000 sq. ft (185.80 sq. meters) of copper sheets.
The statue, entitled 'Birth of a New World,' and weighing in at 6,500 tons, is almost twice the height of New York's Statue of Liberty without its base, and is double the height of Rio's Christ the Redeemer.
The artwork took over 110,000 hours to assemble. Tsereteli, who studied at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts before relocating to Moscow, began working on the structure, that portrays Columbus standing at the helm of the Santa Maria ship, in 1992.
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Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.
Wonders never cease. [/sarcasm]
Spent a year and a half there as a Marine on Naval base Sabana Seca. I absolutely loved my time there however....they want a bailout from our country yet are erecting giant statues costing potentially millions while their island is in complete disarray?
Not a win in my book but more wasteful government largesse
I wonder if the Lefties trying to eliminate Columbus Day will now attack it and try to have it removed or, worse, take direct action.
And it took the Russians to build it.
Fits right in with the tin roofed shacks.
This is a private project.
WHAT? Honoring the guy that discovered the United States? The one that caused all the death and destruction from MA to CA with disease and oppression? The same guy that invented the Mississippi River. Oh, someone different. No doubt somebody will be offended and demand it’s removal. :)
Did Putin's Cuban buddies help?
Those are shipping containers where the pieces came in on. There will be a park built around it.
Cool statue, wonder how it will weather the first big Hurricane to barrel through?
I had an Ancestor who sailed with Columbus.
Bugs Bunny landed first
“I think I see Ohio, Columbus.”
“That’s Columbus, Ohio.”
“I had an Ancestor who sailed with Columbus.”
Well, he missed China by about 5000 miles... :-)
Cool
Arecibo is the location of the big radio telescope.
Wife and I visited this “big dish” a few years ago.
Very neat.
LOL!
Imagining something Trump might say...”LOOK for China? I like people who FIND China!” ;)
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