The First Family will tour the Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado mountain at 21:00 local time.
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Either way, he would come as a radical redeemer, a figure appealing equally to religious and political prophets.
It was off the back of this tour that 'The Great Redeemer', Graham Henry, was introduced to Welsh rugby.
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Maduro's campaign was mostly a near-religious homage to the man he called "the redeemer of the Americas, " who succumbed to cancer March 5.
His first game was against South Africa in Wembley, and if faith in the Redeemer was strong no-one gave the hitherto-hapless Welsh a chance.
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Nor is his rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, a redeemer in waiting.
He is credited with saving the shantytown - perched on a hilltop overlooking the sea, with the Christ the Redeemer statue visible in the distance - from being demolished.
Christ the King's setting is less majestic than the sweeping views of Rio and Guanabara Bay surrounding the mountaintop perch of Christ the Redeemer, which was completed in 1931.
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In recent years, there has been a huge increase in visitors to the city, adding a favela tour to the traditional must-sees such as Christ the Redeemer and Sugarloaf Mountain.
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And I know that when they were in Rio, the President and his family were moved by their visit to the iconic statue Christ the Redeemer, which has inspired so many people around the world.
QUIST-ARCTON: There's the Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Christ the Redeemer - the Statue in Brazil - Machu Picchu in Peru, Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Coliseum in Rome and the Taj Mahal in India.
That would seem to make it clearly taller than the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, which is about 30 meters tall, excluding its large base, and the 34.2-meter-high Cristo de la Concordia in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
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And, of course, Brazil and India have the same fears of China as global low cost manufacturer as the US. In India, each village has their own little gods of protection and people tend to have god idols in their homes the way a Brazilian might have a statue of Jesus with open arms, like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio, decorating their book shelves.
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