Rio de Janeiro, founded as São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro is a city, located in the southeast of the country. It is the second most populated city in the country after São Paulo. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Portugal between 1807 and 1822 and the capital of the Empire of Brazil from 1822, when the nation declared its independence from the Portuguese country until the inauguration of Brasilia, in 1960. It is one of the main economic center, cultural and financial resources of the country, and it is known internationally for its cultural icons and landscapes, such as the Sugar Loaf, the statue of Christ the Redeemer was chosen by people as one of the seven wonders of the modern world, the Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, Maracanã Stadium, Tijuca National Park, the largest urban forest in the world, Quinta da Boa Vista, Paquetá Island, New Year's Eve Festivities in Copacabana and the celebration of Carnival.
The hill of Corcovado is a Brazilian mountain of 713 meters located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In it is a monumental sculpture, well known, called the "Christ the Redeemer", which represents Christ contemplating the city of Rio de Janeiro. The sculpture was built in 1921, by the French sculptor Paul Landowski, and completed in 1931, on occasion of the Brazilian independence Centennial of commemoration. The image reaches 30 m and stands on an 8 m pedestal, weighs about 1145 tons and it is built in granite.
View of the Guanabara Bay from the Christ the Redeemer of Rio de Janeiro. It is among the most popular tourist attractions throughout the year in Rio de Janeiro. The Corcovado train, access roads, and the platform of the statue are commonly filled with people.
Pão de Açúcar is a hill located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the mouth of Guanabara Bay on a peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean. Geomorphologically, it corresponds to a very eroded dome, composed of a monolith of granite and quartz dating from the Cenozoic. It has 396 MASL. This peak is one of the most striking among the several monolithic granite hills that rise directly from the edge of the sea in Rio de Janeiro. A paneled glass cable car .called "Sugar Loaf Bondinho" in popular Portuguese. with a capacity for 65 passengers, runs a 1,400 meter route between the hills of Babilonia and Urca every five minutes. The line of the original cable car was built in 1912. Sugar Loaf bondinho is cable car (bondinho in Portuguese) that joins the different granite monolithic hills that rise to the edge of the sea in the bay of Rio de Janeiro. It goes 1400 meters that separate Babilonia and Urca hills every 5 minutes.
Copacabana, Ipanema beaches are perhaps, along with Cristo do Corcovado and Pão de Açúcar, the best known of Rio de Janeiro. But the best of Rio de Janeiro is much more than its beaches and the sun, and it is much more than you imagine. Rio de Janeiro, the wonderful city is the most festive city of Brazil, fest to flesh, heart and spirit.
There are two stone monuments, one made for God and another for men and both together remember what Jesus said:
"I am the bread that gives life" John 3.35