Monuments are the cultural heritage of countries and are directly related to their history. Each of the monumental buildings is unique in its own way and has its own characteristics.
The has the highest monuments in the world - the top 10.
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The statue of King of Christ Poland
The statue of King of Christ ( Poland) opens the top ten monumental sculptures in the world. This is the highest statue of Jesus Christ to date. It is located on the outskirts of the Polish town of Swiebodzin. The initiator was the priest of the Temple of God's Mercy Sylvester Zavadsky, who proposed in 2001 to build a monument dedicated to Jesus Christ. Miroslav Kazimierz Patetskiy took up the design. Construction began in 2008, and in November 2010 the work was completed. The total height of the sculptural monument of the King of Christ was 52 meters.
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Buddha Dordenma Bhutan
Buddha Dordenma ( Bhutan) is one of the highest monuments in the world, which rises 51 meters above the ground. In translation into Russian the name of the monument sounds like "Beat of a diamond lightning".It was erected in 2010.Inside the monumental sculpture is a temple in which there is a huge array of gilded figures of religious deities. The Buddha Dordenma was built at an altitude of 2500 above sea level, which makes it the highest placed monument in the world. Construction was timed to the centenary of the monarchy in Bhutan. The construction of the state took about 50 million dollars, and the total cost of the project was more than 100 million.
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Motherland Ukraine
Motherland ( Ukraine) - a monument located in Kiev on the banks of the Dnieper. The height of the monumental sculpture is 62 meters, with a pedestal - 102 meters. The statue, erected in 1981, is today considered to be one of the highest in the world. The author of this creation is the sculptor EV Vuchetich, who previously designed the statue "Motherland Calls!".The memorial complex was erected in honor of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1945.Here is the museum of the history of the Second World War. The total area occupied by the memorial complex is 10 hectares. It includes directly the monument, the museum and the main square with the Alley of Hero Cities.
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Motherland is calling! Russia
" Motherland Calling!" ( Russia) - a monument of 1967, erected in the hero-city of Volgograd on the Mamayev Kurgan. At the time of construction for two decades, the statue held the status of the highest in the world. The absolute height of the building is 89 meters with a pedestal. The figure symbolizes a woman with a raised sword, which calls for rebuff to enemy troops. The sculptor EV Vuchetich and engineer NV Nikitin worked on the project of this sculpture. Construction lasted almost eight years. As a result, on a sixteen-meter foundation, which is almost not visible above the ground, a two-meter pedestal and sculpture itself rose.
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Statue of Liberty USA
Statue of Liberty ( USA), 93 meters high, together with a pedestal is on the list of the highest monuments in the world. It is a symbol of New York and the USA.In America, the structure is also called as Lady Liberty. The monument was donated by France to the USA in 1886 by the centenary of the American Revolution. The forty-six-meter statue rises on a forty-seven-meter pedestal, which makes it one of the highest. The Lady of Liberty crown has 25 windows that symbolize precious stones and celestial rays that illuminate the entire planet, and the seven rays in turn are the symbol of the seven seas and continents. In the pedestal there is a museum where exhibitions and excursions are held. The monument is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Monument to Peter I Russia
The monument to Peter I ( Russia), located in Moscow on an artificial island, is one of the highest in the world. The total height of the building is 98 meters, and the height of the figure of Peter I is 18 meters. The official name of the creation of sculptor Zurab Tsereteli sounds like a monument "To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Russian fleet."The design and construction took about a year. In 1997 the monument was erected. To produce the monument, high-quality bronze was used, and some of its elements are gilded. The construction and erection of the sculpture cost Russia $ 20 million. The assembly involved about 120 workers.
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Guanyin China
Guanyin ( PRC) - one of the highest statues in the world, erected in honor of the Chinese goddess. The total height of the monument is 108 meters. It is located in Sanya on the Hainan Island, where it was erected in 2005.The goddess has three faces: she looks at visitors, holding a book in her hands, a second face is depicted with a rosary, the third with a lotus flower. Thus, the many-faced Guanyin represents the three aspects of the Buddha: the past, the present and the future.
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Daibutsu Usiku Japan
Daibutsu Usiku ( Japan) unveils the top three monuments in the world. Its height without a lotus-shaped base and platform is 100 meters, together with a pedestal - 120 meters. The Buddha statue was built in 1995 in the Japanese city of Usiko. It was located in the middle of the park Usiku Arcadia. The sculptural structure inside consists of more than 6 thousand bronze plates, the total weight of which is 4 thousand tons. The length of the left arm is 18 meters, the ear is 10 meters, the face is 20 meters. The mouth is 4 meters long, the eyes 2.5 meters, the nose 1.2 meters.
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Lechjun-Sasachzha Myanmar
Lechjun-Sasajja ( Myanmar) takes the second place in the list of the highest monuments in the world. The sculptural structure is a Buddha statue 115 meters high without a pedestal and 129 meters with a pedestal. The monument was erected in 2008 in the village of Khatakan-Taung, located near the town of Mounyu. Construction lasted more than 10 years and at the time of its erection, the statue was considered the highest. Pedestal Lechzhun-Sasacsha includes two steps: the main and secondary. The main stage is a stepped oblong pyramid with truncated corners and a vertex. Above it is the second oval step, on which the monument stands directly.
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Buddha of the Spring Temple
Buddha of the Spring Temple ( China) heads the list of the highest monuments in the world. Statue height of 128 meters without pedestal depicts Buddha Vairochana. It was located in the Chinese village of Zhaocun. As a result of the increase in the pedestal, the height of the statue increased to 153 meters. It is made entirely of copper and consists of 1100 parts with a total weight of one thousand tons. The work on the construction of the Buddha of the Spring Temple cost China 55 million dollars. The construction of the statue was provoked by the Taliban explosion of the Bamyan monuments in Afghanistan in 2002.Its name was given to the architectural structure in honor of the Foshan Temple, located next to the hot healing spring.
