Tag: Christ the Redeemer

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 08:19 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro authorities order people out of the beaches and closed Christ the Redeemer statue

  

  Anyone hoping to escape wall-to-wall coronavirus coverage with a day at the beach can forget about it in Rio de Janeiro, where authorities armed with megaphones blared out messages on Monday ordering everyone home.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Dozens of tourists victims of mass robbery when climbing the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio

  

  Dozens of tourists hiking toward the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro were held at gunpoint for up to two hours in a mass robbery that could mark an early test for anti-crime crackdowns promised by Brazil’s new president.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2014 - 13:14 UTC

  Lightning chips a finger from Christ the Redeemer right hand

  

  Christ the Redeemer, the iconic statue with its arms extended overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was struck by lightning damaging the statue's right hand thumb, making it lose one finger, according to officials from the Archdiocese of Rio, which manages the statue.

• Monday, July 2nd 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  Rio do Janeiro and its spectacular landscape declared world heritage site

  

  Rio do Janeiro's iconic landscape, marked by soaring granite facades that drop into the ocean and white-sand beaches that go on for miles, is now an official world heritage site.